Wu Guoguang - Zhao Ziyang and Chinas Political Future

What legacies have previous reformers like Zhao Ziyang left to todays China? Does China have feasible political alternatives to todays repressive market Leninism and corrupt state capitalism? Does Zhaos legacy indicate an alternative to the past and for the future?

For those who are familiar with the development of Chinese politics since the reform years, Zhao is now widely regarded as a major architect of the nations profound transition. His contributions to Chinas post-Mao development are rich and multi-faceted, including those on rural and urban economic reforms extending to accountable governance, liberal policies concerning domestic affairs and Chinas foreign relations.

Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field such as Richard Baum and Xiaonong Cheng, this book explores the historical development of Chinas political reform issues, and how Zhaos political legacies are relevant to Chinas political development since the 1980s and for the future. Using recently translated recollection articles by veteran reformers who worked with Zhao in the 1980s, like Du Runsheng, An Zhiwen, Li Rui, Bao Tong, Zhao Ziyang and Chinas Political Future is a valuable contribution for students and researchers interested in Chinese politics, Asian politics and political development in Asia.

Guoguang Wu holds the Chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where he also teaches in the departments of both Political Science and History.

Helen Lansdowne is Assistant Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) at the University of Victoria.

Series Editor Zheng Yongnian

China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, UK

1. China and the New International Order

Edited by Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian

2. Chinas Opening Society

The non-state sector and governance

Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Joseph Fewsmith

3. Zhao Ziyang and Chinas Political Future

Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne

Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne

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Zhao Ziyang and Chinas political future / editors, Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne.

p. cm.

1. ChinaPolitics and government2002- 2. Zhao, Ziyang. I. Wu, Guoguang. II. Lansdowne,

Helen, 1958-

JQ1510.Z45923 2008

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ISBN13: 978-0-415-46514-4 (hbk)

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PART I
Zhao Ziyangs reform legacies

PART II
Chinas political future

Richard Baum is Professor of Political Science at UCLA and former Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. He received both his MA and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He has written widely on contemporary Chinese politics. His books include China in Ferment: Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution, Prentice-Hall, 1971; Prelude to Revolution: Mao, the Party, and the Peasant Question, 196266, Columbia, 1975; Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen, Routledge, 1991; and Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping, Princeton, 1996. His current research focuses on the impact of globalization on Chinas political development.

Charles Burton is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Brock University. With a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto, he is also Adjunct Professor in Hebei Normal University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and the Overseas China Studies Research Centre at East China Normal University. He has given many public lectures and conference papers in Canada and abroad, has made frequent appearances on local and national radio and television, and provides extensive consulting for the Canadian Departments of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), and Citizenship and Immigration, the Canadian Department of Justice, and the World Bank, mostly relating to China and regional affairs, refugee, human rights, and foreign-policy related matters. He has recently completed a major report commissioned and funded by DFAIT entitled Assessment of the CanadaChina Bilateral Human Rights Dialogue. His most recent research outcomes include North Korea and the New World Order, a book-length manuscript currently under review for publication.

Xiaonong Cheng is Editor-in-Chief of Modern China Studies, a refereed quarterly journal of the social sciences and humanities on contemporary China circulated worldwide and in China, and is Vice President of the Centre for Modern China. With a BA in economics and statistics from the Renmin University of China, he worked as a policy consultant for Chinese national leaders, including Zhao Ziyang, in the 1980s as a Research Fellow at the Research Institute of the National Peoples Congress, and then as a Senior Research Fellow and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in Chinas Institute for Economic Reform. Since 1989, he has been a visiting scholar at various institutes, including the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, the Institute of Sociology at the National Centre for Scientific Researches in Paris, and at the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He was a PhD student of sociology at Princeton University in the early 1990s. He has published numerous books and articles in both Chinese and English on the Chinese economy, economic reform, economic policy-making, and globalization.

Willy Wo-lap Lam is a veteran expert on China, holds degrees in economics and liberal arts from the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Minnesota, and earned a PhD in political economy from Wuhan University. A journalist, author and researcher with some thirty years experience, he has been Senior China Analyst at CNNs Asia-Pacific Office, Associate Editor and China Editor of the Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post, and Beijing Correspondent for Asiaweek. Since 2005, he has been Professor of China and Global Studies at Akita International University in Japan. He has published extensively on areas including the Chinese Communist Party, economic and political reform, high-tech development, the Peoples Liberation Army, foreign policy, ChinaTaiwan and ChinaHong Kong relations. Dr Lams recent books include: