How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders, Revised Edition

About the Author vii

Acknowledgments ix

Overview: How China’s Leaders Think xiii

1. Pride 3

2. Stability 14

3. Responsibility 19

4. Vision 27

5. Subjugation, Humiliation, Oppression 37

6. Reform’s Epic Struggle 51

7. Tiananmen and Thereafter 66

8. What’s a “Socialist Market Economy?” 73

9. How Communism Adopted Capital and Ownership 93

10. The Hidden Power of Jiang Zemin’s “Three Represents” 105

11. The Driving Relevance of Hu Jintao’s “Scientific Perspective on Development” 120

12. Snapshots of Economic Reform 131

13. The Countryside is Core 143

14. Rebalancing Imbalances 152

15. How Reform Permeates All Society 161

16. Here Come the Lawyers 172

17. Facing Up to Corruption 180

18. Values and the New Social Contract 187

19. Provincial Pictures of Reform 203

20. Regional Dragonheads: Pudong (Shanghai) and Binhai (Tianjin) 216

21. What to Do with State-Owned Enterprises? 225

22. The Private Business Revolution 244

23. Banking Reform: The Largest Assets and Greatest Risks 253

24. Reforming Science & Technology with Sparks & Torches 266

25. Education: When Reform and Tradition Clash 276

26. Healthcare and Medical Reform: One Doctor’s Story 281

27. Media and Publishing Reform: Hidden in Plain Sight 290

28. How Telecommunications and the Internet Changed China 308

29. Diversity of Culture; Question of Censorship 320

30. How China’s Leaders Love Film 331

31. Why Religion Became Important 344

32. Foreign Policy Breaks Free 361

33. What does Military Reform Mean? 379

34. Telling China’s Story to the World 391

35. China’s Future Senior Leaders 407

36. China’s New Kind of Leaders 426

37. China’s Economic Future: How Far Can It Go? 447

38. Guangdong Visions 459

39. China’s Political Future: Is Reform Real? 473

40. China Threat or China Model? 491

41. China Reflections and Visions 507

Index 521