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Summary
Summary
China After Deng Xiaoping "...An excellent new study of post-Tiananmen China." "He [the author] is extremely skillful at using both official and unofficial sources to show that..... despite the bland assurances of 'stability and unity,' politics in China is a serious business of finding compromises between different interest groups, competing ideologies and alternative visions of the future." "What emerges is a far more nuanced account of factional struggle in the Communist party than the caricature we normally encounter, of a struggle between good and evil, or 'reformers vs conservatives.'" Asian Wall Street Journal "Lam is among the best Hong Kong-based China watchers. He is a knowledgeable, close-up observer and a provocative writer. He presents sharp analyses of events and makes bold judgements." Far Eastern Economic Review "One of the most valuable [works on post-Deng China] is this latest study by one of Hong Kong's most informed political journalists. This is a consummate China watcher's book....... for anyone who seriously wants to understand what is happening in Chinese politics, it is indispensable." Asiaweek, the Asian Newsweekly "A renowned China specialist, Lam's views are valued by the international media. The author's insightful analysis is based on interviews with senior Communist-Chinese officials and the study of internal party documents. His book includes discussions of Chinese politics, economic reform, the future role of the People's Liberation Army, and Deng Xiaoping's legacy." United Daily News, Taipei
Author Notes
Willy Wo-Lap Lam has been writing about China since the mid-1970s. A foreign correspondent in Beijing from 1986 to 1988, Lam is China Editor of the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's leading English-language newspaper. He is the author of the much acclaimed The Era of Zhao Ziyang (1989). Lam is an internationally recognised sinologist with particular expertise on the Chinese Communist Party; the People's Liberation Army; the theory and practice of economic and political reform; and Deng Xiaoping Thought.
Table of Contents
| Deng Xiaoping2s Controversial Legacy |
| Economic Reform: How Far Down the Capitalist Road? |
| The Maoist Restoration: Class Struggle and the Negation of Reform |
| The People2s Liberation Army: Deng2s Great Wall of Steel |
| Political Reform on Hold: How the Party Consolidated Its Dictatorship |
| Succession Politics and the Post-Deng Leadership |
| Conclusion: China after Deng Xiaoping |
| Abbreviations and Glossary |
| Notes |
| Index |
