DECISION-MAKING IN DENG'S CHINA
Studies on Contemporary China
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DECISION-MAKING IN DENG'S CHINA
PERSPECTIVES FROM INSIDERS
Carol Lee Hamrin and Suisheng Zhao, editors
Studies on Contemporary China
Decision-Making in Dengs China
Perspectives from Insiders
Carol Lee Hamrin and Suisheng Zhao, Editors
With a Foreword by A. Doak Barnett
First published 1995 by M.E. Sharpe
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Decision-making in Dengs China: perspectives
from insiders / Carol Lee Hamrin
and Suisheng Zhao, editors.
p. cm.
East gate book.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-56324-502-7.ISBN 1-56324-503-5 (pbk.)
1. ChinaPolitics and government1976
I. Hamrin, Carol Lee, II. Zhao, Suisheng, 1954
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Contents
A. Doak Barnett
Carol Lee Hamrin and Suisheng Zhao
Van Jiaqi
Ruan Ming
Guoguang Wu
Yan Huai
Wang Lixin and Joseph Fewsmith
Tong Zhan
Ching-chang Hsiao and Timothy Cheek
George Yang
Kam Yiu-yu
Su Shaozhi
Fang Zhu
Chen Yizi
Hsiao Pen
Yan Huai
Zhu Xiaoqun
Meirong Yang
Cheng Xiaonong
H. Lyman Miller
Suisheng Zhao
The Editors
Carol Lee Hamrin is adjunct professor at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the Johns Hopkins University, and a Chinese affairs specialist at the U.S. Department of State. She is the author of China and the Challenge of the Future: Changing Political Patterns (1990) as well as book chapters and journal articles on Chinese politics and foreign policy, and co-editor of several books on Chinese intellectuals and the state.
Suisheng Zhao is assistant professor of government at Colby College in Maine and founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China. He is the author of Power, Position, and Institutional Design: Constitution-Making in Nationalist China (forthcoming) and has taught at Beijing University and the University of CaliforniaSan Diego. A research fellow at the Economic Research Center of the State Council and the Institute of South and Southeast Asian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) before 1985, he has published widely in both Chinese and English on Chinese politics, foreign policy, and East Asian international relations.
The Contributors
Timothy Cheek is an associate professor of history at the Colorado College. His research focus is on the role of intellectuals in the modern transformation of China, particularly their role in the CCP. His books include China's Establishment Intellectuals (1986), edited with Carol Lee Hamrin; The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao (1989), edited with Roder-
ick MacFarquhar and Eugene Wu; and Deng Tuo and Intellectual Service in Mao's China (forthcoming).
Chen Yizi is the former director of the State Council's Economic Reform Institute in China and participated in the political reform decisionmaking process in 1986-89. He is currently president of the Center for Modern China in Princeton.