Zheng Yongnian - China Entering the Xi Jinping Era

How will China develop under the new leadership of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang? This is a key question for both China and the wider world. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the key areas and issues, assessing how things are likely to develop under the new leadership. It considers the economy trade, politics and demographics; appraises the leadership, both at the national and provincial levels; and discusses potential flashpoints in China's relationship with its neighbors and China's emerging role in world politics. The book emphasizes the great uncertainties surrounding the next phase of China's development, highlighting the structural problems of the economy, the problems of urbanization and governance, and the deep social cleavages which exist over issues such as income disparity, rampant corruption and unequal opportunities in social mobility. Against this backdrop it measures the emerging leadership of Xi Jinping to assess the prospects of China in the next decade and beyond.

Zheng Yongnian is Professor and Director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.

Lance L. P. Gore is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.

Series Editor: Zheng Yongnian
East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

1. China and the New International Order
Edited by Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian

2. China's Opening Society
The non-state sector and governance
Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Joseph Fewsmith

3. Zhao Ziyang and China's Political Future
Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne

4. Hainan - State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province
Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

5. Non-Governmental Organizations in China
The rise of dependent autonomy
Yiyi Lu

6. Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State
Edited by Keun Lee, Joon-Han Kim and Wing Thye Woo

7. China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution
Social changes and state responses
Edited by Xiaoling Zhang and Yongnian Zheng

8. Socialist China, Capitalist China
Social tension and political adaptation under economic globalisation
Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne

9. Environmental Activism in China
Lei Xei

10. China's Rise in the World ICT Industry
Industrial strategies and the catch-up development model
Lutao Ning

11. China's Local Administration
Traditions and changes in the sub-national hierarchy
Edited by Jae-Ho Chung and Tao-chiu Lam

12. The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor
Culture, reproduction and transformation
Zheng Yongnian

13. China's Trade Unions - How Autonomous Are They?
Masaharu Hishida, Kazuko Kojima, Tomoaki Ishii and Jian Qiao

14. Legitimating the Chinese Communist Party since Tiananmen
A critical analysis of the stability discourse
Peter Sandby-Thomas

15. China and International Relations
The Chinese view and the contribution of Wang Gungwu
Zheng Yongnian

16. The Challenge of Labour in China
Strikes and the changing labour regime in global factories
Chris King-chi Chan

17. The Impact of China's 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
Edited by Jean-Philippe Bja

18. The Institutional Dynamics of China's Great Transformation
Edited by Xiaoming Huang

19. Higher Education in Contemporary China
Beyond expansion
Edited by W. John Morgan and Bin Wu

20. China's Crisis Management
Edited by Jae Ho Chung

21. China Engages Global Governance
A new world order in the making?
Gerald Chan, Pak K. Lee and Lai-Ha Chan

22. Political Culture and Participation in Rural China
Yang Zhong

23. China's Soft Power and International Relations
Hongyi Lai and Yiyi Lu

24. China's Climate Policy
Chen Gang

25. Chinese Society - Change and Transformation
Edited by Li Peilin

26. China's Challenges to Human Security
Foreign relations and global implications
Edited by Guoguang Wu

27. China's Internal and International Migration
Edited by Li Peilin and Laurence Roulleau-Berger

28. The Rise of Think Tanks in China
Xufeng Zhu

29. Governing Health in Contemporary China
Yanzhong Huang

30. New Dynamics in Cross-Taiwan Straits Relations
How far can the rapprochement go?
Edited by Weixing Hu

31. China and the European Union
Edited by Lisheng Dong, Zhengxu Wang and Henk Dekker

32. China and the International System
Becoming a world power
Edited by Xiaoming Huang and Robert G. Patman

33. China's Social Development and Policy
Into the next stage?
Litao Zhao

34. E-Government in China
Technology, power and local government reform
Jesper Schlger

35. Social Protest in Contemporary China, 2003-2010
Transitional Pains and regime legitimacy
Yanqi Tang and Shaohua Lei

36. China's Evolving Industrial Policies and Economic Restructuring
Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Sarah Y. Tong

37. China Entering the Xi Jinping Era
Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Lance L. P. Gore

Edited by
Zheng Yongnian and Lance L. P. Gore

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China entering the Xi Jinping era / edited by Zheng Yongnian and
Lance L.P. Gore.
pages cm. -- (China policy series; 37)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. China--Politics and government--2002- 2. China--Social conditions--2000
3. China--Social policy. 4. China--Foreign relations--21st century.
5. Political leadership--China. 6. Xi, Jinping I. Yongnian, Zheng, editor
of compilation. II. Gore, Lance, 1958- editor of compilation.
DS779.46.C435 2014
951.06'12--dc23
2014012844

ISSN: 978-0-415-74039-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-81565-7 (ebk)

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