Damage Control: The Chinese Communist Party in the Jiang Zemin Era

Jiang Zemin stepped down as the Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2002, marking "the first time in the history of the People's Republic of China (PRC) that a physically health party boss stepped down without intensive political struggles among top leaders," note editors Wang and Zheng (both of the East Asian Institute, National U. of Singapore) . Bringing together scholars from their Institute, they present 15 papers assessing Zemin's tenure as party leader. The major themes of the collection are ideological and organizational decay, damage control and response, and the party in transition. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)