‘The Era of Jiang Zemin’ is dense with detail, built up from a wide range of interviews with Chinese executives, officials, academics, diplomats, and businesspeople. In that sense, the book itself was a product of a more open political system under Jiang.
The death on Wednesday of China’s former leader Jiang Zemin has prompted an outpouring of nostalgia on the internet, with many tributes from young Chinese focusing on the contrast between Jiang’s governing style and flamboyant personality and those of his successors.
The leader of China through its recent decades of breakneck economic growth died today. Many Chinese people and foreign observers are nostalgic for Jiang Zemin’s rule. But does the past just look better in contrast to the dourness and growing repression of the Xi Jinping era?
The death of China’s former leader, who presided over breakneck economic growth and a period of stability following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has caused feelings of nostalgia around the globe in light of the ongoing anger at Xi Jinping’s COVID-zero policy.
Wang Huning is the most important political theorist in Xi Jinping's China. But what kind of ideology does this man, who ascended to the Politburo Standing Committee after decades of advising different CCP leaders, actually believe in?
Jiang Zemin, who succeeded Deng Xiaoping and was the first PRC leader who was not of the Long March generation, proved to be more formidable than anyone anticipated.
In this transcript of a Sinica Podcast episode marking the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, three contributors to a book about 10 key figures in the CCP’s history have a wide-ranging discussion about the Party.
"The past three turnovers in the inner circle of China's Communist Party leadership have come with an age guideline for retirement: Those 67 years old or younger could stay; those 68 or older had to go. Now, comments from a senior party functionary are adding fuel to speculation that President Xi Jinping may break with the norm at a once-every-five-years party congress late next year."