The later 2012 and early 2013 marked a major milestone in China when high level leadership changes took place in both the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese Government. The changes have enormous implications for China’s internal developments as well as foreign policy and regional security. The book under review on China’s new leadership, social changes and economic challenges edited and written by young scholars of India is an outcome of collaboration among important institutions of China studies in India, namely the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi and the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. The importance of such initiative is huge in the context of the extremely limited number of works by Indian scholars on China’s internal dynamics. The book focuses on a number of China’s important domestic social, political, ethnic and economic issues, and enriches debate on the subject.
March 2014, volume 38, No 3