China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789814603720)

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.

Author: Zhiyue Bo
ISBN-10: 9814603724
ISBN-13: 9789814603720
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2007
Pages: 468
Format: Paperback