China - A New Stage of Development for an Emerging Superpower

　　This volume presents a timely assessment of the Hu–Wen Administration at the juncture of preparing a change of China’s leadership in 2012–13. The assessment is important because the administration’s apparent success tends to create a path-dependent orientation on the part of its successor.

　　Bringing together a collection of nineteen major essays, this book offers a fresh perspective of evaluating the performance and achievements of China in the Hu–Wen era in terms of economic development, the establishment of a rudimentary social security system and her rising international status. The new opportunities and challenges facing China, and how will the likely successors Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang handle those opportunities and challenges, as well as new policy programmes will also be discussed in greater detail. Each essay is written by experts and scholars from different academic disciplines and backgrounds to provide readers with a unique overview of their respective areas of expertise.

　　This book will provide a platform for further informed deliberations among academics, students, corporate executives and professionals who are interested in China’s development.

1.Challenges for Hu-Wen and Their Successors: Consolidating the "Beijing Consensus" Model
—Joseph Y. S. CHENG

2.Democratization within the CPC and the Future of Democracy in China
—Feng LIN

3.Purchase of Office in China: A Shortcut for Career Advancement?
—Jun LI and Joseph Y. S. CHENG

4.Cadre Performance Appraisal and Fabrication of Economic Achievement in Chinese Officialdom
—Jun LI and Joseph Y. S. CHENG

5.The Internet and Political Marketing  in Globalizing China
—Chin-fu HUNG

6.The Transitional Role of the Hu-Wen Leadership in China: A Case Study of Liu Xiaobo
—Mobo GAO

7.China Wages Quasi-Superpower Diplomacy
—Willy Wo-Lap LAM

8.New History Inside Hu Jintao's Foreign Policy: "Harmony" versus "Hegemony"
—Ronald C. KEITH

9.Battle Ready? Developing a Blue-water Navy. China's Strategic Dilemma
—Joseph Y. S. CHENG and Stefania PALADINI

10.The Twelfth Five-Year Plan: Strategic Adjustments, the Impact of the Global Financial Tsunami, and the Socio-Political Challenges
—Joseph Y. S. CHENG

11.China's Financial Development under Hu-Wen's Leadership: The Unfinished Revolution
—Baozhi QU and Yang LI

12.Labour Policies under Hu-Wen's Regime: Transformation and Challenges
—Chris King-chi CHAN

13.New Labour Law and Its Implication  for the Human Rights Regime in China
—Alvin Y. SO

14.China's Green Challenges in the Rise to Global Power under the Leadership of Hu Jintao
—Carlos Wing-Hung LO, Yok-shiu F. LEE and Xueyong ZHAN

15.Challenges and Prospects of Reforestation in Contemporary China: The Case of the Grain for Green Project
—Jie GAO and Jia GUO

16.Observations on Education Policy under Hu's Leadership and Wen's Administration:  The Past and the Next Decade
—Steven HOLM

17.Strengthening Political Education in Chinese Universities in the Hu Jintao Era: A Critical Reading of the CPC's No. 16 Document (2004)
—Qinghua WANG

18.Mending the Chinese Welfare Net:  Tool for Social Harmony or Regime Stability?
—Linda WONG

19.Sino-Vatican Relations in China's Rise:  From Clash of Authority to Accommodation
—Beatrice LEUNG

20.  Epilogue
—Joseph Y. S. CHENG