How China's Leaders Think The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders , Revised Paperback

Author: Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781118085905
Published In: March 2011
Format: Paperback , 576 pages
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China impacts everyone—an economic superpower competing in every arena of human endeavor. Here are those who run China, its current and future leaders. Here’s how China’s leaders think about China’s growing global strength—in trade, business and finance; in diplomacy, defense and security; in science, technology and innovation; in culture, media and sports—and what this all means for the future of the world. Here also are China’s leaders in economics, private business, state-owned enterprises, banking, foreign affairs, military, healthcare, religion, film, television, press, Internet, literature, ideology, and more.

Robert Lawrence Kuhn speaks with over 100 Chinese leaders and has inner access to Communist Party officials and material. He focuses on President Hu Jintao's philosophies and policies, and looks to the next generation of China’s leaders. Who are China’s future leaders? What are they doing today? What’s their way of thinking about China’s place in the world? What about prospects for democracy and political reform? Is there a road map for political reform?

What about the so-called “China Threat?” Or the emerging “China Model?” Kuhn confronts China’s leaders with China’s problems: economic imbalances (rural vs. urban), pollution, unsustainable development, migrant workers, human rights, democracy, rule of law, corruption, minorities, ethnic conflicts, censorship, social instability, ideological shakeup, shifting moral and family values, religious repression, death penalty, organs from executed prisoners, global conflicts, resource competition, and the worldwide financial crisis. The best way to know China—the best way to do business with China—is to know what motivates China’s leaders and what drives their policies. This book is an intimate, candid portrayal of how China’s leaders think. Readers will never get closer to China’s leaders than this.

About the Author.

Acknowledgements.

Overview: How China’s Leaders Think.

PART I GUIDING PRINCIPLES.

1. Pride.

2. Stability.

3. Responsibility.

4. Vision.

PART II THINKING REFORM.

5. Subjugation, Humiliation, Oppression.

6. Reform’s Epic Struggle.

7. Tiananmen and Thereafter.

8. What’s a “Socialist Market Economy?”

9. How Communism Adopted Capital and Ownership.

10. The Hidden Power of Jiang Zemin’s “Three Represents”.

11. The Driving Relevance of Hu Jintao’s “Scientific Perspective on Development”.

12. Snapshots of Economic Reform.

13. The Countryside is Core.

14. Rebalancing Imbalances.

15. How Reform Permeates All Society.

16. Here Come the Lawyers.

17. Facing Up to Corruption.

18. Values and the New Social Contract.

PART III DOING REFORM.

19. Provincial Pictures of Reform.

20. Regional Dragonheads: Pudong (Shanghai) and Binhai (Tianjin).

21. What to Do with State-Owned Enterprises?

22. The Private Business Revolution.

23. Banking Reform: The Largest Assets and Greatest Risks.

24. Reforming Science & Technology with Sparks & Torches.

25. Education: When Reform and Tradition Clash.

26. Healthcare and Medical Reform: One Doctor’s Story.

27. Media and Publishing Reform: Hidden in Plain Sight.

28. How Telecommunications and the Internet Changed China.

29. Diversity of Culture; Question of Censorship.

30. How China’s Leaders Love Film.

31. Why Religion Became Important.

32. Foreign Policy Breaks Free.

33. What does Military Reform Mean?

34. Telling China’s Story to the World.

PART IV REFORM’S FUTURE.

35. China’s Future Senior Leaders.

36. China’s New Kind of Leaders.

37. China’s Economic Future: How Far Can It Go?

38. Guangdong Visions.

39. China’s Political Future: Is Reform Real?

40. China Threat or China Model?

41. China Reflections and Visions.

Index.

Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is an international corporate strategist, investment banker, and public intellectual. For over 20 years he has worked with China’s senior leaders and advised the Chinese government. Dr. Kuhn also advises multinational companies on formulating and implementing China strategies, and Chinese companies in capital markets financings.

The author or editor of over 25 books, Dr. Kuhn is often in the media (e.g., CNBC, Euronews, BBC, BusinessWeek, Xinhua News Agency), discussing China’s politics and economy and the philosophies and policies of its senior leaders. He is senior international affairs commentator on Euronews, the leading television news network in Europe, and senior international commentator of China Central Television (CCTV News).

Dr. Kuhn works with China’s leaders on special projects. He is the author of The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin—the first biography of a living Chinese leader published in China and China’s best-selling book of 2005. He is the author of two event-marking books: China 30 Years: A Great Transformation Of Society, which commemorates China’s 30^th anniversary of reform and opening up and features President Hu Jintao; and How China’s Leaders Think (the first edition of this book), which commemorates China’s 60^th anniversary and focuses on China’s new (“Fifth”) generation of leaders. Dr. Kuhn has visited more than 40 cities in over 20 provinces and regions in China. He is senior advisor to CCTV and Xinhua.

Dr. Kuhn is chairman of The Kuhn Foundation, which produces Closer To Truth, the public television / PBS series on science and philosophy (which Dr. Kuhn hosts)—www.closertotruth.com. He has an A.B. in human biology (John Hopkins), a Ph.D. in anatomy / brain research (UCLA) and an S.M. in management (MIT).