Beschreibung:
Renowned for his coverage of China's elite politics and leadership transitions, veteran Sinologist Willy Lam has produced the first book-length study in English of the rise of Xi Jinping--General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since November 2012. With rare insight, Lam describes Xi's personal history and his fascination with quasi-Maoist values, the factional politics through which he ascended, the configuration of power of the Fifth-Generation leadership, and the country's likely future directions under the charismatic "princeling."
1. Factors Behind Xi Jinping's Rise: Factional Intrigue and Controversies Over the Future of Reform 2. The Making of a New Helmsman 3. Xi Jinping's Ideology and Politics 4. Economics vs. Politics: Beijing's Uphill Battle to Retool the China Model 5. China's Great Leap Outward 6 Conclusion: Xi Jinping and the Closing of the Chinese Mind