China’s Changing of the Guard: The Rise of the Technocrats

Issue Date January 2003
Volume 14
Issue 1
Page Numbers 60-65
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With both reformists and leftists pushed aside, political center-stage now belongs to new pragmatists both inside and outside the Communist Party.

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