How Chinas Leaders Think: The Inside Story of Chinas Past, Current and Future Leaders

China’s Leaders In the fall of 2012, when China’s Communist Party has its next National Party Congress (one is held every five years), senior leaders will be selected to replace those who have run the country for the past decade. In his book, How China’s Leaders Think , Kuhn offers background on Chinese officials we may hear more about in coming years. – Barron’s Robert Kuhn offers outlooks on the mainland’s future from those shaping it… [His] access to the mainland’s political hierarchy is impressive. – South China Morning Post How China’s Leaders Think draws on interviews with more than 100 Chinese leaders, providing insightful views on what China’s current and future leaders think about economy, media, diplomacy and more. – Xinhua News Agency Kuhn’s latest work draws on his personal conversations with as many as 100 Chinese leaders. Kuhn delves into the mode of thinking of China’s leaders, revealing how they feel about the country’s presence in the world and how certain changes may impact others. – Global Times This book reflects the personal visions and collective commitment of China’s senior leaders, including the next generation who will come to full power in 2012. Most readers will not get closer to China’s leaders than this. – China Daily This is an important book that deserves a wide audience. It is important because it is the first attempt by a foreigner to explain the thinking of China’s current leadership across a range of subjects, and because Kuhn’s access to that leadership is unprecedented – and entirely unique – for any Westerner outside of diplomatic circles. – That’s Shanghai Arguably one of the best surveys of China’s economic and social landscape during several decades of reform. – The Washington Times  

About the Author. Acknowledgements. 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 Model? 41. China Reflections and Visions. Index.

Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is an international corporate strategist, investment banker, and public intellectual. For over 20 years he has worked with China’s senior leaders and advised the Chinese government. Dr. Kuhn also advises multinational companies on formulating and implementing China strategies, and Chinese companies in capital markets financings. The author or editor of over 25 books, Dr. Kuhn is often in the media (e.g., CNBC, Euronews, BBC, BusinessWeek, Xinhua News Agency ), discussing China’s politics and economy and the philosophies and policies of its senior leaders. He is senior international affairs commentator on Euronews, the leading television news network in Europe, and senior international commentator of China Central Television ( CCTV News ). Dr. Kuhn works with China’s leaders on special projects. He is the author of The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin —the first biography of a living Chinese leader published in China and China’s best–selling book of 2005. He is the author of two event–marking books: China 30 Years: A Great Transformation Of Society , which commemorates China’s 30 th anniversary of reform and opening up and features President Hu Jintao; and How China’s Leaders Think (the first edition of this book), which commemorates China’s 60 th anniversary and focuses on China’s new (“Fifth”) generation of leaders. Dr. Kuhn has visited more than 40 cities in over 20 provinces and regions in China. He is senior advisor to CCTV and Xinhua. Dr. Kuhn is chairman of The Kuhn Foundation, which produces Closer To Truth , the public television / PBS series on science and philosophy (which Dr. Kuhn hosts)—www.closertotruth.com. He has an A.B. in human biology (John Hopkins), a Ph.D. in anatomy / brain research (UCLA) and an S.M. in management (MIT).