Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-343) and index.
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Introduction: the rise of Hu Jintao and the traits of the fourth-generation leadership -- The crisis of legitimacy: Hu Jintao's search for a perennial mandate of heaven -- The communist party vs. peasants and workers: will Hu Jintao's "new social contract" work? -- The scourge of governmental stagnation: the price of holding up political reform -- The fourth-generation leadership's ambitious foreign-policy agenda -- The challenge of nationalism and other ideas and trends for the new century -- Conclusion: where is the new thinking?
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Presents a first-hand, multi-dimensional account of twenty-first century China and the impact of fourth generation leaders, including President Hu Jinato and Premier Wen Jiabao. This book examines how the Hu leadership has tried to extend the Communist Party's ''mandate of heaven'' by tackling an array of daunting problems.
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