Based on biographical data on more than 2,500 individuals in China's thirty provincial units from the beginning of the People's Republic in 1949, this is the most comprehensive and systematic treatment of China's provincial leaders ever published. The study presents detailed accounts of four categories of provincial leaders - party secretaries, deputy party secretaries, governors, and vice governors - including age, gender, nationality, hometown, education, party membership, and length of membership. It also traces the careers of these leaders in terms of promotion, demotion, transfer, and retirement. And using sophisticated statistical analysis, it links the political mobility of these leaders to the economic performance of their provincial units.

Chinese Provincial Leaders: Economic Performance and Political Mobility Since 1949 (Studies on Contemporary China)

History

BO, ZHIYUE

Americas

M.E. Sharpe, Inc.

Looks at the history of modern China, a time period when China moved from a puppet state controlled by other nations to an economic and political power.

The History Of Modern China (History and Culture of China)

Asia

Mason Crest

A sequel to the author's trailblazer (China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing, published by World Scientific in 2007), this book tackles the issue of governance in China. It provides up-to-date information on China's political elites and evaluates their ability to deal with crises through four case studies: Snowstorm in the South, the Tibet issue, the Sichuan Earthquake, and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Along with China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing, this book provides rich empirical information on and insightful theoretical understanding of national-level politics in China and serves as a good reference source for students of Chinese politics.

China's Elite Politics: Governance And Democratization (Series on Contemporary China, 19)

Business & Money

Economics

WSPC

"Professor Bo Zhiyue is the doyen of Sinologists specializing in elite politics. This book offers fascinating first-hand accounts of the inner workings of the higher echelons of the Chinese Communist Party. With unique insight and perspicacity, Professor Bo offers us glimpses of the factional intrigue and Machiavellian skullduggery behind President Xi Jinping's dramatic bid to become 'Mao Zedong of the 21st Century'."Dr Willy Lam Center for China Studies and Department of History Chinese University of Hong Kong "As one of the most astute China watchers and prominent scholars of the CCP's elite politics, Bo Zhiyue offers in the book 53 observations of the most recent political development in China under Xi Jinping. The essays are concise and piercingly insightful, giving the author's take on events that signify underlying trends in current Chinese politics. Bo discusses the anti-corruption campaign, elite dynamics, economic development, Greater China and foreign affairs, rising political stars, and China's future, subjects that are the core concerns for anyone interested in Chinese politics. By encapsulating historical perspective, in-depth analysis, and sensitivity to current events in powerful and concise essays, the book makes the most efficient reading for understanding the complexity of current Chinese politics."Yu-Shan Wu Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Republic of China China watching is anything but being boring because Chinese politics is filled with dramas almost on a daily basis. In the past three years since Xi Jinping became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese political drama has unfolded with a lot of twists and turns.Based on a series of articles published on the Diplomat, this volume offers snapshots of different episodes of the political drama from December 2014 to January 2016, focusing mostly on the main character of the show — President Xi Jinping and serving as an appetizer for those who are hungry about Chinese elite politics.

China's Political Dynamics Under XI Jinping

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

World Scientific Publishing Company

China's Elite Politics provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents characteristics of China's political elites, and analyzes the balance of power among formal institutions as well as among factional groups. It also examines political interactions between Jiang Zemin and his cronies on the one side and Hu Jintao and his allies on the other over a number of issues: the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); ideological institutionalization; the politics over economic overheating; Jiang Zemin's complete retirement; and Hu Jintao's power consolidation in both ideological and personnel terms.

China's Elite Politics: Political Transition And Power Balancing (Contemporary China)