Reform, Legitimacy, and Dilemmas - China's Politics and by Gungwu Wang, Yong-Nian Zheng

By Gungwu Wang, Yong-Nian Zheng

How has China's post-Deng management ruled the rustic? How have the altering social and political environments shifted the bases of political legitimacy? What options has Jiang Zemin followed to deal with new situations so as to increase his management? What are the demanding situations those new reform measures have generated for the management? and the way have family issues limited the leadership's purpose in China's international family members? those are a number of the questions which this quantity makes an attempt to deal with. The authors agree that Jiang Zemin isn't really a guy with none political initiative. He has struggled to set up his personal form of management, and to reinforce the legitimacy of his management by means of surroundings forth new ideas and associations for political video games and through discovering new measures to deal with new demanding situations. This choice of articles indicates the luck Jiang and his colleagues have had in strengthening their management; how different reform measures have reinforced Jiang's rule; and the way the continued reform has created new challegnes for his regime.

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1936 Jul. 1941 Jul. 1929 Jul. 1935 Apr. 1930 Jan. 1928 ** Nov. 1932 Zeng Qinghong Dec. 1939 Wu Yi (female) Nov. 1938 Jiang Zemin ** Zhang Wannian Chi Haotian ** ** #Hu Jintao ** Fu Quanyou Wang Ke Yu Yongbo Nov. 1930 Aug. 1931 Sep. 1931 Wang Ruilin #Guo Boxiong #Xu Caihou Dec. 1929 1944 N/A Position Name Birth General Secretary Jiang Zemin Aug. 1926 Political Bureau Standing Committee Member (7) Jiang Zemin Zhu Rongji Hu Jintao Li Lanqing Oct. 1928 Dec. 1942 May 1932 Members (22) Ding Guangen Zhu Rongji Li Peng Li Lanqing Li Ruihuan Wu Guanzhen Zhang Wannian Hu Jintao Jia Qinglin Huang Ju Wen Jiabao Alternate Members (2) Central Military Commission Chairman Vice Chairmen (3) ** Members (6) N/A: Information not available #Newly appointed.

In the Leftists' words again, "what was regarded right in the past is now regarded wrong; what was regarded wrong 18 The term "New Left" was given by many Chinese commentators in the Mainland and Hong Kong. See Yazhou zhoukan (Asia Weekly), Hong Kong, September 18, 1994, pp. 26-7; and Dangdai yuekan (Current Affairs Monthly), Hong Kong, November 15, 1994, pp. 26-30. 19 For example, see Cui Zhiyuan, "Mao Zedong 'wenge' lilun de deshi yu 'xiandaixing' de chongjian" ("Mao Zedong's Idea of Cultural Revolution and the Restructuring of Chinese Modernity"), Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, no.

Any wrong moves on the issue would undermine the PRC political system. From this point of view, the immediate challenge for the leadership would be the Taiwan issue. After the return of Hong Kong and Macao, the leadership has shifted its attention to Taiwan. But the Taiwan issue is obviously more complicated and difficult than the previous two. After Lee Teng-hui raised the concept of the "special state-to-state relation" in 1999, cross-strait relations have considerably deteriorated. The Taiwan issue is not merely between the Mainland and Taiwan, but is also a key part of China's external relations, especially Sino-US relations.

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