Coming off the convocation of the 15th Party Congress, China started 1998 with reform
moving ahead full steam. This was manifested in a palpable relaxation of the intellectual …

Momentous, if not tumultuous, transitions punctuated the year 1997 for China. In February,
Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader whose life had spanned the decades of revolutionary …

When Jiang Zemin was elevated to be general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's
Central Committee, the Party's topmost official position, in the wake of the suppression of the …

This book consists of papers presented at the International Conference on OC China: The
Next DecadeOCO, organized by the East Asian Institute at the National University of …

China in 1993 was gripped by two fundamental processes. One was economic-the workings
of the primary stage of capitalismand the other was natural-Deng Xiaoping's imminent …

The achievements and shortcomings of the reform movement in China in 1985 to a large
extent influenced the country's political agenda in 1986. The promotion of a new generation …

China's bolder reformers found themselves on a roller coaster ride in 1987. Taken together,
the startling events of mid-January-the forced resignation of Party General Secretary and …

WHILE THE PRECISE starting point of China's reforms is rather difficult to pinpoint, a series
of crucial events—ranging from the famous 3rd Plenum in 1978 and 5th Plenum in 1980, to …

This special issue1 focuses on Hu Jintao's first mandate in power, between the Sixteenth
and the Seventeenth Party Congress (2002-2007). It considers two intertwined issues …

IN THE FIRST half of 1976, at a time when the Cultural Revolutionary Left exerted a
dominating influence on the central leadership in Peking, the Chinese Communist …