The Hu-Wen new deal / John Wong and Lai Hongyi -- Hu Jintao's consolidation of power and his command of the gun / You Ji -- Deciphering Hu's leadership and defining new elite politics / Li Cheng -- Hu Jintao's approach to governance / Joseph Fewsmith -- Remaking the party's image: challenges for the propaganda department / Zheng Yongnian and Lye Liang Fook -- Reforming the party and the state under Hu Jintao / Hsu Szu-chien -- Rule of law and governance / Zou Keyuan -- New patterns of economic growth / Wu Yanrui -- Changes and reform in financial markets / Howard Davies -- Strengthening corporate governance: completing the unfinished business of SOE Reform / Sarah Y. Tong -- The effects and implications of foreign direct investment in China for other developing economies: hollowing out or filling in? / Busakorn Chantasasawat, K.C. Fung, Hitomi Iizaka, and Alan Siu -- Changing land policies: ideology and realities / John Wong and Liang Ruobing -- Income inequalities, limited social mobility and remedial policies / Lai Hongyi -- Labor market reforms under Hu-Wen Administration / Zhao Litao -- Managing social unrest / Cai Yongshun -- From social insurance to social assistance: welfare policy change / Edward Gu -- Governments, markets, and the health care sector / Åke Blomquist -- Population development strategies: the new thinking / Peng Xizhe -- Bush's Asia policy and US-China relations / Zhao Quansheng -- China and Northeast Asian cooperation: building an unbuildable? / Jae Ho Chung -- China and Southeast Asia cooperation: new developments and challenges / Zhang Haibing.
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This volume is an updated survey and assessment of the recent policy initiatives of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, which have come to be known as the Hu-Wen's New Deal. Individual chapters are written by scholars from different academic disciplines and backgrounds. These scholars hail from Singapore, the United States, Australia, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. Topics cover the patterns and process of leadership succession, emerging political factions, social unrest, sources of economic growth, income disparities, social security reform, land use policy, banking reform, corporate gover.