The Power Of Ideas
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China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country's domestic and foreign policies, demographic constraints, and ever-growing integration into the world community. This book focuses on China's major think tanks where policies are initiated, and on a few prominent thinkers who influence the way in which elites and the general public understand and deal with the various issues confronting the country.
The book examines a number of factors contributing to the rapid rise of Chinese think tanks in the reform era. These include the leadership's call for "scientific decision-making," the need for specialized expertise in economics and finance as China becomes an economic powerhouse, the demand for opinion leaders in the wake of a telecommunication revolution driven by social media, the accumulation of human and financial capital, and the increasing utility of the "revolving door" nature of think tanks. -
LiĀ ChengĀ is Director and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's John L Thornton China Center. Dr Li is also a director of the National Committee on USāChina Relations, a member of the Academic Advisory Team of the Congressional USāChina Working Group, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author/editor of numerous books, includingĀ Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of ReformĀ (1997),Ā China's Leaders: The New GenerationĀ (2001),Ā Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: The SinoāUS Educational ExchangeĀ (2005),Ā China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for DemocracyĀ (2008),Ā China's Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic TransformationĀ (2010),Ā The Road to Zhongnanhai: High-Level Leadership Groups on the Eve of the 18th Party CongressĀ (2012, in Chinese),Ā China's Political Development: Chinese and American PerspectivesĀ (2014), andĀ Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective LeadershipĀ (forthcoming 2016).
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China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country's domestic and foreign policies, demographic constraints, and ever-growing integration into the world community. This book focuses on China's major think tanks where policies are initiated, and on a few prominent thinkers who influence the way in which elites and the general public understand and deal with the various issues confronting the country.
The book examines a number of factors contributing to the rapid rise of Chinese think tanks in the reform era. These include the leadership's call for "scientific decision-making," the need for specialized expertise in economics and finance as China becomes an economic powerhouse, the demand for opinion leaders in the wake of a telecommunication revolution driven by social media, the accumulation of human and financial capital, and the increasing utility of the "revolving door" nature of think tanks. -
LiĀ ChengĀ is Director and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's John L Thornton China Center. Dr Li is also a director of the National Committee on USāChina Relations, a member of the Academic Advisory Team of the Congressional USāChina Working Group, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author/editor of numerous books, includingĀ Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of ReformĀ (1997),Ā China's Leaders: The New GenerationĀ (2001),Ā Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: The SinoāUS Educational ExchangeĀ (2005),Ā China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for DemocracyĀ (2008),Ā China's Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic TransformationĀ (2010),Ā The Road to Zhongnanhai: High-Level Leadership Groups on the Eve of the 18th Party CongressĀ (2012, in Chinese),Ā China's Political Development: Chinese and American PerspectivesĀ (2014), andĀ Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective LeadershipĀ (forthcoming 2016).
