How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Reform and What This Means for the Future

China impacts everyone-an economic superpower competing in every arena of human endeavor. Here are those who run China, its current and future leaders. Here's how China's leaders think about China's growing global strength-in trade, business and finance; in diplomacy, defense and security; in science, technology and innovation; in culture, media and sports-and what this all means for the future of the world. Here also are China's leaders in economics, private business, state-owned enterprises, banking, foreign affairs, military, healthcare, religion, film, television, press, Internet, literature, ideology, and more. Robert Lawrence Kuhn speaks with over 100 Chinese leaders and has inner access to Communist Party officials and material. He focuses on President Hu Jintao's philosophies and policies, and looks to the next generation of China's leaders. Who are China's future leaders? What are they doing today? What's their way of thinking about China's place in the world? What about prospects for democracy and political reform? Is there a road map for political reform? What about the so-called "China Threat?" Or the emerging "China Model?" Kuhn confronts China's leaders with China's problems: economic imbalances (rural vs. urban), pollution, unsustainable development, migrant workers, human rights, democracy, rule of law, corruption, minorities, ethnic conflicts, censorship, social instability, ideological shakeup, shifting moral and family values, religious repression, death penalty, organs from executed prisoners, global conflicts, resource competition, and the worldwide financial crisis. The best way to know China-the best way to do business with China-is to know what motivates China's leaders and what drives their policies. This book is an intimate, candid portrayal of how China's leaders think. Readers will never get closer to China's leaders than this.

Table of Contents:
About the Author. Acknowledgments. Overview: How China's Leaders Think. PART I GUIDING PRINCIPLES. 1. Pride. 2. Stability. 3. Responsibility. 4. Vision. PART II THINKING REFORM. 5. Subjugation, Humiliation, Oppression. 6. Reform's Epic Struggle. 7. Tiananmen and Thereafter. 8. What's a "Socialist Market Economy?". 9. How Communism Adopted Capital and Ownership. 10. The Hidden Power of Jiang Zemin's &"Three Represents". 11. The Driving Relevance of Hu Jintao's "Scientific Perspective on Development". 12. Snapshots of Economic Reform. 13. The Countryside is Core. 14. Rebalancing Imbalances. 15. How Reform Permeates All Society. 16. Here Come the Lawyers. 17. Facing Up to Corruption. 18. Values and the New Social Contract. PART III DOING REFORM. 19. Provincial Pictures of Reform. 20. Regional Dragonheads: Pudong (Shanghai) and Binhai (Tianjin). 21. What to Do with State-Owned Enterprises? 22. The Private Business Revolution. 23. Banking Reform: The Largest Assets and Greatest Risks. 24. Reforming Science & Technology with Sparks & Torches. 25. Education: When Reform and Tradition Clash. 26. Healthcare and Medical Reform: One Doctor's Story. 27. Media and Publishing Reform: Hidden in Plain Sight. 28. How Telecommunications and the Internet Changed China. 29. Diversity of Culture; Question of Censorship. 30. How China's Leaders Love Film. 31. Why Religion Became Important. 32. Foreign Policy Breaks Free. 33. What does Military Reform Mean? 34. Telling China's Story to the World. PART IV REFORM'S FUTURE. 35. China's Future Senior Leaders. 36. China's New Kind of Leaders. 37. China's Economic Future: How Far Can It Go? 38. Guangdong Visions. 39. China's Political Future: Is Reform Real? 40. China Threat or China? 41. China Reflections and Visions. Index.

About the Author :
Robert Lawrence Kuhn has a doctorate in brain science and is the author or editor of more than 25 books. Five of his books have been translated into Chinese, including two editions of Closer To Truth. Dr. Kuhn is the author of The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin. The Chinese edition was the number one bestselling book in China in 2005 with sales of over one million and substantial publicity. His book is recognized as the first time that a biography of a living Chinese leader has been published on the Chinese mainland, and stories of its success in China have run in the international press. Dr. Kuhn is also recognized as an international investment banker and expert on China. Since 1989 he has been advising the Chinese government on economic policy, mergers and acquisitions, science and technology, media and culture, and international communications. He is Senior Advisor to Citigroup and was president and co-owner of The Geneva Companies, the leading mergers and acquisitions firm for middle market businesses, which he sold to Citigroup in 2001. Dr. Kuhn regularly appears on CNBC / Bloomberg, writes commentaries in BusinessWeek, and has a featured column in Chief Executive magazine ("Uncommon Wisdom"). Dr. Kuhn is chairman of The Kuhn Foundation, which he founded and funded to disseminate new knowledge and understanding in science and philosophy, support cultural endeavors, and promote good relations between America and China. He is vice chairman of the new Beijing Institute for Frontier Science and on the editorial board of Frontier Science journal. Dr. Kuhn initiated a high-level conference between the AAAS and the Chinese Association for Science and Technology on "Scientific Ethics, Responsibility and Freedom" (2007).