Foreword/Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Retrogressions under Xi Jinping in Light of the Institutional Reforms of His Relatively Liberal Forebears
2 The Rise of Xi Jinping, His Work Style and Members of the Xi Faction
3 Xi’s Ideological Agenda: To Push Forward Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era
4 Xi Jinping’s Surveillance-State Apparatus and Its Impact on Society
5 Xi’s Economic Agenda: Boosting Party Control over Business while Avoiding Decoupling from the International Marketplace
6 Xi’s Foreign Policy Agenda: China to Become Rule-Setter of the World
7 Conclusion: The 20th Party Congress and Beyond: Xi Jinping Becomes “Leader for Life” but China Faces Unprecedented Challenges
Index
Biography
Willy Lam is a Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC, and a research affiliate with several academic institutions in North America. Previously, he taught Chinese politics and foreign policy for 15 years at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lam has 40 years of experience writing about China. His eight books include China in the Era of Xi Jinping and The Fight for China’s Future (both published by Routledge).
'Xi Jinping, ambitious that the world see him as a second Mao Zedong, has arranged a blueprint for China’s future that puts himself at the center, for life. It is not sure that his plans will hold, but they present a danger to the Chinese people that could be as terrible as the havoc that Mao created. For more than three decades, no China-watcher has followed elite Chinese politics with more precision and in more detail than Willy Lam, whose encyclopedic grasp of data is the base for insights that the world ignores at its peril.'
Perry Link, Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines, University of California, Riverside, USA'Willy Lam’s penetrating analysis of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ideological agenda, personal ambition, and political ruthlessness explains how fast and far China has retrogressed since he rose to power in 2012. Those in the West concerned about responding to the China challenge in the coming decade will benefit greatly from reading the book.'
Minxin Pei, Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna University, and Editor, China Leadership Monitor
