China into the Hu-Wen era : policy initiatives and challenges / edited by John Wong, Lai Hongyi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, John, 1939-

Contributor:

Lai, Hongyi, 1965-

Series:

Series on contemporary China ; v. 5.

Series on contemporary China ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Politics and government--2002-.

China.

China--Economic policy--2000-.

China--Social conditions--2000-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (584 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is an updated survey and assessment of the recent policy initiatives of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, which have come to be known as the Hu-Wen's New Deal. Individual chapters are written by scholars from different academic disciplines and backgrounds. These scholars hail from Singapore, the United States, Australia, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. Topics cover the patterns and process of leadership succession, emerging political factions, social unrest, sources of economic growth, income disparities, social security reform, land use policy, banking reform, corporate gov

Contents:

Table of Contents ; List of Editors and Contributors ; Part I. Introduction ; The Hu-Wen New Deal ; Part II. Strengthening Governance and Rule of Law ; 1. Hu Jintao's Consolidation of Power and His Command of the Gun ; 2. Deciphering Hu's Leadership and Defining New Elite Politics

3. Hu Jintao's Approach to Governance 4. Re-making the Party's Image: Challenges for the Propaganda Department ; 5. Reforming the Party and the State Under Hu Jintao ; 6. Rule of Law and Governance ; Part III. Sustaining Economic Growth and Reform ; 7. New Patterns of Economic Growth

8. Changes and Reform in Financial Markets 9. Strengthening Corporate Governance: Completing the Unfinished Business of SOE Reform ; 10. The Effects and Implications of Foreign Direct Investment in China for Other Developing Economies: Hollowing Out or Filling in?

11. Changing Land Policies: Ideology and Realities Part IV. Coping with Social Issues and Tensions ; 12. Income Inequalities Limited Social Mobility and Remedial Policies ; 13. Labor Market Reforms Under Hu-Wen Administration ; 14. Managing Social Unrest

15 From Social Insurance to Social Assistance: Welfare Policy Change 16. Governments Markets and the Health Care Sector ; 17. Population Development Strategies: The New Thinking ; Part V. Managing China's External Relations ; 18. Bush's Asia Policy and United States-China Relations

19 China and Northeast Asian Cooperation: Building an Unbuildable?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611919184

9781281919182

1281919187

9789812773944

9812773940

OCLC:

879023743