David M. Finkelstein and Maryanne Kivlehan, eds. China’s Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003. Chapters highlight the challenges facing a new generation of leaders.

Lardy, Nicholas. Integrating China into the Global Economy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002.

The China Leadership Monitor. (www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org). Continually updated analysis of high-level politics.

Nathan, Andrew J. and E. Perry Link, eds. The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership’s Decision to use Force Against Their own People - in their own words. New York: LLC Public Affairs, 2001.