Carnival China : China in the era of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping / Kerry Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Kerry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Politics and government--21st century.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Imperial College Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With Foreword by John Keane. The era of the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao was one in which China became richer, more powerful, more prominent and more vexed. This series of essays, originally published on the Open Democracy website between 2006 and 2013, attempts to make sense of the cultural, political and economic dynamics within which China operates. They deal with internal and external matters, and cover a range of topics, from the fall out over the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo to the build-up in 2008 to the Beijing Olympics. Furnished with a comprehensive i

Contents:

Author Bio; Foreword; Contents; Editorial Note and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: The Context: Governing China; China's 17th Party Congress: Getting Serious; 5 October 2007; China's Tiananmen Moment: The Party Rules; 3 June 2009; China's Shadow Sector: Power in Pieces; 17 September 2009; China: Inside Strain, Outside Spleen; 25 March 2010; Chinese Democracy: The Neglected Story; 6 April 2011; China, the Party-State's Test; 3 November 2012; Chapter Two: Society in Carnival China: The Beautiful, the Damned and the Olympics; Shanghai: Formula One's Last Ride; 15 October 2007

Beijing's Political Tightrope Walk13 March 2008; China's Olympics: After the Storm; 6 May 2008; China on Olympic Eve: A Globalisation of Sentiment; 11 July 2008; The Olympics Countdown: Beijing to Shanghai; 5 August 2008; China Changes Itself: An Olympics Report; 20 August 2008; China's Nervous Transition; 22 September 2008; Gan Lulu and China: The Human Touch; 12 July 2012; Chapter Three: China and the Outside World; Chimerica: Obama Visits Beijing; 27 October 2009; North Korea's Fate, Chimerica's Test With Jiyoung Song; 7 December 2009; China and America: The Uses of Vulnerability

8 June 2010China and Tony Blair: The Wealth Circuit; 15 September 2010; China and the Egyptian Uprising With Cassidy Hazelbaker; 2 March 2011; China's Elite: A Language Deficit; 8 February 2012; China and Syria:A Question of Responsibility With Cassidy Hazelbaker; 2 April 2012; China and Japan: A Conflict of Logics; 30 August 2012; Chapter Four: The Road to 2012: The Leadership Transition; China's Next Elite: 2012 and Beyond with Loh Su-Hsing; 16 August 2010; China's Great Transition: The Next Party Congress; 29 July 2011; The Three Rules of Chinese Politics; 4 October 2011

China's Party, Bo Xilai's Legacy with David Goodman5 May 2012; Chongqing and Bo Xilai: How China Works; 16 August 2012; Bo Xilai's Fall: Echo and Portent; 12 October 2012; Chapter Five: The Enemies Within: Separatists, Dissidents, and the Protestors; Xinjiang: China's Security High Alert; 14 July 2009; Gao Zhisheng and China's Question; 3 February 2010; China and Liu Xiaobo: The Weakness of Strength; 11 October 2010; Liu Xiaobo and China's Future; 12 October 2010; Hada, Liu Xiaobo and China's Fear with Natalia Lisenkova; 8 December 2010; Inner Mongolia: China's Turbulent Secret; 21 June 2011

Chapter Six: Following the Money: The Chinese EconomyChina Goes Global; 2 August 2007; China in 2009: A Year for Surprise; 14 January 2009; China's Giant Struggle; 5 February 2009; China Local, China Global; 11 March 2009; Chapter Seven: After Hu Jintao; Chimes at Midnight: Corruption and the Future of the Communist Party; 15 March 2013; On Networks and the New Leadership; 15 May 2013; Time to Accept Difference; 18 June 2013; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 7, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78326-425-X