Willy Wo-Lap Lam: Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping. Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?Carolin Kautz

ASIEN – Nr. 140 (2016) pp. 152–53

New York, Oxford: Routledge, 2015. XXIII +323 S., 85 GBP (cloth), 35 GBP (paper)

With his recent publication Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?, Willy Lam is presenting the first book-length analysis in English of the political career of Xi Jinping, his rise to power and his ideological beliefs. Lam is a renowned China watcher working at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is among others publishing on elite politics in China. This analysis of the fifth leadership generation and its core Xi Jinping is not Lam’s first piece of scholarly work on Chinese leaders: he already published analyses of the third and fourth leadership generations with their cores Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, respectively.