What will the upcoming 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) bring, and what will the next decade of CPC rule look like? Who will rule China and what future do they envision for the Party and China? In this volume, the East Asian Institute in Singapore brings together an exceptional team of world-leading China experts from Asia, the United States, Europe and Australia to set out the future implications of trends in CPC politics and governance in CPC General Party Secretary Xi Jinping’s “New Era.”

The essays collected in this volume bring together cutting-edge research and insights into China’s economy, society, politics, military and international relations targeted at a professional audience in government, business, the media, NGOs and universities. The book is distributed Open Access under a Creative Commons license, and sold in print editions in Asia.

List of Contributors

Introduction
Frank N. Pieke and Bert Hofman

Section 1   Chinese Politics with Xi Jinping at the Core

1. The CPC under Xi: Ten More Years?
    Jude Blanchette

2. CPC Elite Politics and the 20th Party Congress
    Chen Gang

3. Age, Factions, Specialization in the Path to the New Leadership at the 20th Party Congress
    Victor Shih

4. A Data-driven Assessment of the CPC Leadership
    Lee Jonghyuk

Section 2   Ideology and Legitimacy

5. Canonising Xi Jinping Thought – Ideological Engineering and Its Real-world Relevance
    Heike Holbig

6. Behind Xi Jinping’s Resurrection of Ideology Orthodoxy
    Lance Gore

7. Sinification of Marxism – The CPC’s Most Urgent Ideological Challenge
    Yao Yang

8. Democracy with Chinese Adjectives: Whole-process Democracy and China’s Political Development
    Wang Zhongyuan

Section 3   Building the Party-state’s Governing Capacity

9. The Central Commission for Deepening Reform as Policy Accelerator
    Nis Grünberg and Vincent Brussee

10. Rating Citizens with China’s Social Credit System
      Diana Fu and Rui Hou

11. The CPC’s Global Power
      Frank N. Pieke

12. The People’s Liberation Army as a Party Army
      Li Nan

Section 4   Development, Security and the CPC

13. Grand Steerage as the New Paradigm for State-Economy Relations
      Barry Naughton

14. Common Prosperity
      Bert Hofman

15. Dual Circulation and Its Impact on China and the World
      Sarah Tong

16. Reforming Public Finance for the New Era
      Christine Wong

17. China’s Enduring Pursuit of State-Owned Enterprise Reform
      Wendy Leutert

Section 5   Comprehensive National Security

18. Securitisation and Governance in the Xi Jinping Era
      Joel Wuthnow

19. The CCP and Sovereignty in a Digitally Connected World
      John Lee

20. The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State
      Tai Ming Cheung

Section 6   The CPC, China’s Rise and Geopolitical Shifts

21. The CPC as a Global Force: A Long-Term View
      Richard McGregor

22. National Security and Chinese Foreign Policy
      Xiaoyu Pu

23. To Change, to Compete, or to Coexist? The United States’ Perceptions of the Communist Party of China from Mao to Now
      Paul Haenle and Nathaniel Sher