Published: 2006    |    By: Minxin Pei, Jeffrey Bader, Jaques Mistral, Ted C. Fishman  |    Volume 63, No. 5

Summary

The four articles in this issue of Behind the Headlines are based on the lectures in the BMO Financial Group/CIIA Distinguished Lecture Series 2006. The four lecturers discussed the remarkable growth of the Chinese economy, the much slower evolution of China’s political system, and the implications of these developments not only for the Chinese people but for the international community as a whole.

About the Author

Minxin Pei is Director of the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Jeffrey Bader is Director of the China Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Jacques Mistral is Professor of economics, Conseil d’analyse économique, Paris, and Senior Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Ted C. Fishman is the author of China Inc: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World , published in 2005.