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Since the founding of the Peoples Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power.In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of Chinas dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it. Exploring the persona, formative socialization, psychology, and professional experiences of each leader, Shambaugh shows how their differing leadership styles and tactics of rule shaped China domestically and internationally: Mao was a populist tyrant, Deng a pragmatic Leninist, Jiang a bureaucratic politician, Hu a technocratic apparatchik, and Xi a modern emperor. Covering the full scope of these leaders personalities and power, this is an illuminating guide to Chinas modern history and understanding how China has become the superpower of today.

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Previous Books by David Shambaugh

Where Great Powers Meet: America & China in Southeast Asia (2021)

China & the World (edited, 2020)

The China Reader: Rising Power (edited, 2016)

Chinas Future (2016)

International Relations of Asia (co-edited, 2008 and 2014)

China Goes Global: The Partial Power (2013)

Tangled Titans: The United States and China (edited, 2012)

Charting Chinas Future: Domestic & International Challenges (edited, 2011)

Chinas Communist Party: Atrophy & Adaptation (2008)

ChinaEurope Relations: Perceptions, Policies, and Prospects (co-edited, 2008)

China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan, and the United States (co-edited, 2007)

Power Shift: China & Asias New Dynamics (edited, 2005)

The Odyssey of Chinas Imperial Art Treasures (co-authored, 2005)

Modernizing Chinas Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (2002)

Making China Policy: Lessons from the Bush and Clinton Administrations (co-edited, 2001)

The Modern Chinese State (edited, 2000)

Is China Unstable? (edited, 2000)

The China Reader: The Reform Era (co-edited, 1999)

Chinas Military Faces the Future (co-edited, 1999)

Contemporary Taiwan (edited, 1998)

Chinas Military in Transition (co-edited, 1997)

China and Europe: 19491995 (1996)

Greater China: The Next Superpower? (edited, 1995)

Deng Xiaoping: Portrait of a Chinese Statesman (edited, 1995)

Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory & Practice (co-edited, 1994)

American Studies of Contemporary China (edited, 1993)

Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 19721990 (1991)

The Making of a Premier: Zhao Ziyangs Provincial Career (1984)

CHINAS LEADERS
From Mao to Now

DAVID SHAMBAUGH

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Copyright David Shambaugh 2021

The right of David Shambaugh to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in 2021 by Polity Press

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4652-7

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Shambaugh, David L., author.
Title: Chinas leaders : from Mao to now / David Shambaugh.
Description: Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: A world-renowned Sinologist explores Chinas modern history through the lives of its leaders-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021008012 (print) | LCCN 2021008013 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509546510 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509546527 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Zhongguo gong chan dang. Zhong yang wei yuan hui--Biography. | Heads of state--China--Biography. | Statesmen--China--Biography. | China--Politics and government--1949- | China--History--1949
Classification: LCC DS734 .S43 2021 (print) | LCC DS734 (ebook) | DDC 951.05092/2--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008012
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008013

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Dedication

Dedicated Admiringly to the Memory of Roderick MacFarquhar The Doyen of Chinese Leadership Studies

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Ever since I first started studying China and its politics in 1973 I have focused on a variety of aspects and dimensions of the Chinese political system, but none more consistently than its senior leaders and leadership. My first book in 1984 was in fact about a Chinese leader (Zhao Ziyang); it traced his life and career path from being a sub-provincial official in Guangdong province to becoming the national Premier and then General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and other Chinese leaders have played a central role in many of my subsequent publications. Of course, leaders matter a great deal in the life and politics of all nations, but their impact is greater in certain autocratic systemsof which China is one. I have long been interested in the different dimensions of how Chinese communist leaders ruletheir individual idiosyncrasies, how they interact with each other, what strategies and tactics they adopt, how they use the institutional levers of power and control at their disposal, how they impact Chinese society, and how they interact with the other leaders from other countries.

This book about Chinas leaders has thus been percolating in my mind for many decades. As I have taught my own university courses on Chinese politics during the past three decades, I have always adopted a leader-centric approach, and would assign individual biographical books and articles on different leaders, but I always wished that there was a single volume that covered Chinas main leaders and their periods of rule from 1949 to the present. The one that does successfully do this was edited by the eminent Harvard professor Roderick MacFarquhar; in this volume and all others that he authored during his distinguished career, Chinese leaders played the central role in his analysis. Rod unfortunately recently passed away in February 2019, but during his scholarly career he was truly the doyen of the study of Chinese communist elite politics. Rod was always most kind and mentoring to me (although I was never his student), I hold him in extremely high esteem, and therefore I admiringly dedicate this book to his memory and to all that he contributed to the scholarly study of Chinese politics. During the period 19911996 when I served as the Editor of The China Quarterly, the leading journal in contemporary China studies, which Rod founded in 1960, Rod was also very supportive and mentoring from across the Atlantic and his professorial position at Harvard.

While China has many leaders at any given time, who populate the approximately 25-member Political Bureau (Politburo) and the 7-member Standing Committee, there has always been one dominant paramount leader (much more than a primus inter pares). This book is about the five main individuals who have been in this position (Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping)but it also definitely considers others who held the top institutional portfolios as party leader (Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang, Zhao Ziyang) as well as a variety of other Politburo members who have been significant political players in their own rights.

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