Highlights key issues as they developed in the People's Republic of China. This book contains articles that offer an understanding of the major events. It is organized into four thematic sections - challenges of governance, growth and structural changes, coping with rising social problems, and relations with major powers and neighbors.

Highlights key issues as they developed in the People's Republic of China. This book contains articles that offer an understanding of the major events. It is organized into four thematic sections - challenges of governance, growth and structural changes, coping with rising social problems, and relations with major powers and neighbors.

Providing an in-depth analysis of recent developments and changes in the power relations among China's top leaders, this study asks whether the Jiang-Zhu coalition will be able to rise to the occasion and push through its many reform programmes, or even simply retain its power.