Leadership in a Changing China

WEIXING CHEN is Professor of Political Science at East Tennessee State University, USA.YANG ZHONG is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, USA.

"Chinese politics has become less crisis-driven in the past decade, but it has not become less complex. Changes in society and in the role of the Communist Party of China have put a divided and hesitant central leadership on the edge of major political reform. These scholars use their intimate familiarity with China's current realities to provide a comprehensive analysis of the trends shaping China's political choices and the dilemmas facing the leadership as it attempts to govern a changing China." - Brantly Womack, University of Virginia

• PART I: LEADERSHIP CHANGE AND INSTITUTION BUILDING The 16th CCP National Congress: Institutionalization of Succession Politics; Z.Yongnian New Leaders and Institution Building in China; L.Gang Building a New Political Order in Post-Jiang China; W.Chen & G.Liu New Institution Building or Muddling Through in the Chinese Countryside?; Y.Zhong To Craft Village Democracy in China: The Roles of National Political Elites; L.Youzing PART II: LEADERSHIP CHANGE AND NEW FOREIGN POLICY OROENTATIONS The 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and China's Foreign Policy; C.Shulong The Impact of Domestic Politics on Chinese Foreign Policy; S.Xinning Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition; G.Liu Cross-Strait Relations After the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party; J. Fu-Sheng