Preparing for the Succession

David Bachman is associate professor of international studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), Chen Yun and the Chinese Political System (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1985), and coeditor and cotranslator of Yan Jiaqi and China’s Struggle for Democracy (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1991).