A fascinating look at China now and in the years to come, through the eyes of those at the helmAs China continues its rapid ascent, attention is turning to its leaders, who they are, and how they view the country's incredible transformation over the last thirty years. In How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders, Revised, bestselling author Lawrence Kuhn goes directly to the source, talking with members of China's ruling party and examining recently declassified Party material to provide readers with an intimate look at China's leaders and leadership structure, visionary principles, and convulsive past, and tracing the nation's reform efforts.Focusing on President Hu Jintao's philosophies and policies, the book looks to the next generation of China's leaders to ask the questions on everyone's lips. Who are China's future leaders? How do they view China's place in the world? Confronting China's leaders head on, Kuhn asks about the county's many problem, from economic imbalances to unsustainable development, to find out if there's a road map for change. Presenting the thoughts of key Chinese leaders on everything from media, military, banking, and healthcare to film, the Internet, science and technology, and much more, the book paints an intimate, candid portrayal of how China's leaders really think.* Presents a fascinating insight into how China's leaders think about their country and where it's headed* Asks the tough questions about China's need for reform* Pulls together information from over 100 personal interviews as well as recently declassified Party documentsTaking readers closer to Party officials than ever before, How China's Leaders Think documents China's thirty-year struggle toward economic and social reform, and what's to come.

About the Author viiAcknowledgments ixOverview: How China's Leaders Think xiii1. Pride 32. Stability 143. Responsibility 194. Vision 275. Subjugation, Humiliation, Oppression 376. Reform's Epic Struggle 517. Tiananmen and Thereafter 668. What's a "Socialist Market Economy?" 739. How Communism Adopted Capital and Ownership 9310. The Hidden Power of Jiang Zemin's "Three Represents" 10511. The Driving Relevance of Hu Jintao's "Scientific Perspective on Development" 12012. Snapshots of Economic Reform 13113. The Countryside is Core 14314. Rebalancing Imbalances 15215. How Reform Permeates All Society 16116. Here Come the Lawyers 17217. Facing Up to Corruption 18018. Values and the New Social Contract 18719. Provincial Pictures of Reform 20320. Regional Dragonheads: Pudong (Shanghai) and Binhai (Tianjin) 21621. What to Do with State-Owned Enterprises? 22522. The Private Business Revolution 24423. Banking Reform: The Largest Assets and Greatest Risks 25324. Reforming Science & Technology with Sparks & Torches 26625. Education: When Reform and Tradition Clash 27626. Healthcare and Medical Reform: One Doctor's Story 28127. Media and Publishing Reform: Hidden in Plain Sight 29028. How Telecommunications and the Internet Changed China 30829. Diversity of Culture; Question of Censorship 32030. How China's Leaders Love Film 33131. Why Religion Became Important 34432. Foreign Policy Breaks Free 36133. What does Military Reform Mean? 37934. Telling China's Story to the World 39135. China's Future Senior Leaders 40736. China's New Kind of Leaders 42637. China's Economic Future: How Far Can It Go? 44738. Guangdong Visions 45939. China's Political Future: Is Reform Real? 47340. China Threat or China Model? 49141. China Reflections and Visions 507Index 521