What price reform?

摘要

After 15 years at the helm, China's ebullient and irascible leader, Jiang Zemin, has completed the handover of power to a younger generation. The Communist Party appears to have carried out its first orderly succession, after a mere 55 years in power. But will Hu Jintao, who is now party chief, president and, since September 19th, supreme military commander, set his sights on higher goals and attempt to turn the sclerotic party into something more democratic?