From the very first page, despite the brash promise of the title, the reader has to correct the stated composition of the Standing Committee of the Politburo-nine instead of seven members and Li Ruihuan’s demise 3-and ignore the prediction that Jiang Zemin would by now have retired completely from the political scene. Andrew Nathan and Bruce Gilley, the “authors” of China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files, a work largely based on a book published in Chinese 2, have experienced this cruel reality for themselves. Because mistakes are never forgiven and because they are nevertheless frequent, the wealth of information required for this type of guesswork is quickly discredited. This exercise, useful though it may be, is risky. 4 Stéphanie Balme (Mutation du communisme et crise de l’Etat néo-patrimonial en Chine : enquête sur (.)ġThe months, even more the weeks leading up to the Sixteenth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in the course of which were to be unveiled the names of the new leadership team, were a period that has very naturally come to be called “Pekinology”. 3 This eventuality was mentioned for the first time only two days before the opening of the Sixteent (.).2 Andrew Nathan and Bruce Gilley, China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files, Granta Books, London, 2002.1 This study, the result of a fifteen-month stay in Shanghai, was made possible thanks to the financ (.).
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