How China's Leaders Think : The Inside Story of China's Reform and What This Means for the Future

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. "How China's Leaders Think focuses on the forces shaping New China - the leaders and their philosophies; the government and its policies; and a nation of some 1.3 billion eagerly embracing change. With unique access to Communist Party officials and material, author Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviews over 100 of China's leaders to learn first hand their objectives and strategies. He stresses President Hu Jintao's principles and programs, and looks to the next generation of China's leaders. What are China's future leaders doing today? What's their way of thinking about democracy, political reform and China's place in the new world order?" "Kuhn speaks with China's leaders in private companies, state-owned enterprises, banking, foreign affairs, military; agriculture, healthcare, religion, media, internet, film, literature, ideology and more to create an extraordinary portrait of China today. These in-depth, candid discussions invite readers to question the relevance of the so-called "China threat" and to consider the validity of an emerging "China model." In confronting leaders on China's problems, such as economic imbalances, pollution, corruption, human rights, media censorship, religious tension, and ethnic conflicts, to name a few, Kuhn finds frank acknowledgement of the long road China must still travel in order to realize President Hu's vision of a Harmonious Society." "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. How China's Leaders Think opens that door to deeper understanding. Quite literally, it is an invaluable portrayal of how China's leaders really think. Readers will not get closer to China's leaders than this."--Jacket Part I: Guiding principles Pride Stability Responsibility Vision Part II: Thinking reform Subjugation, Humiliation, Oppression Reform's Epic Struggle Tiananmen and Thereafter What's a "Socialist Market Economy?" How Communism Adopted Capital and Ownership The Hidden Power of Jiang Zemin's "Three Represents" The Driving Relevance of Hu Jintao's "Scientific Perspective on Development" Snapshots of Economic Reform The Countryside is Core Rebalancing Imbalances How Reform Permeates All Society Here Come the Lawyers Facing Up to Corruption Values and the New Social Contract Part III: Doing reform Provincial Pictures of Reform Regional Dragonheads: Pudong (Shanghai) and Binhai (Tianjin) What to Do with State-Owned Enterprises? The Private Business Revolution Banking Reform: The Largest Assets and Greatest Risks Reforming Science & Technology with Sparks & Torches Education: When Reform and Tradition Clash Healthcare and Medical Reform: One Doctor's Story Media and Publishing Reform: Hidden in Plain Sight How Telecommunications and the Internet Changed China Diversity of Culture; Question of Censorship How China's Leaders Love Film Why Religion Became Important Foreign Policy Breaks Free What does Military Reform Mean? Telling China's Story to the World Part IV: Reform's future China's Future Senior Leaders China's New Kind of Leaders China's Economic Future: How Far Can It Go? Guangdong Visions China's Political Future: Is Reform Real? China Threat or China Model? China Reflections and Visions. The author of the best-selling The Man Who Changed China examines the region's three-decade struggle toward economic and social reform, drawing on recently declassified communist party material to provide an analysis of China's leaders and their efforts to address issues ranging from banking and health care to science and technology.