Author: Gongqin Xiao | Journal of Democracy

Gongqin Xiao is professor of history at the Shanghai Normal University. He is the author of Good-bye to Political Romanticism (2001), Collected Works of Gongqin Xiao (1995), and The Dilemma of Confucian Culture (1986). He has published several influential articles on Chinese politics in Strategy and Management, China’s leading policy journal.

January 2003, Volume 14, Issue 1

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

Gongqin Xiao

With both reformists and leftists pushed aside, political center-stage now belongs to new pragmatists both inside and outside the Communist Party.

Will China Democratize?

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Andrew J. Nathan

Although China has achieved extraordinary economic success without the CCP regime loosening its authoritarian grip, can the country continue its growth without political reform?