Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era by Cheng Li - 9780815726920

Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping EraReassessing Collective Leadership\nAuthor(s): Cheng Li\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Brookings Institution\nISBN-13: 9780815726920, 978-0815726920\nSynopsis\nChinese politics are at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping amasses personal power and tests the constraints of collective leadership.\nIn the years since he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has surprised many people in China and around the world with his bold anti-corruption campaign and his aggressive consolidation of power.\nGiven these new developments, we must rethink how we analyze Chinese politics?an urgent task as China now has more influence on the global economy and regional security than at any other time in modern history.\nChinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era examines how the structure and dynamics of party leadership have evolved since the late 1990s and argues that \""\""inner-party.