Li Cheng
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre on Contemporary China and the World, HKU
Li Cheng is the Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre on Contemporary China and the World (CCCW) at the University of Hong Kong. He was previously Director and Senior Fellow of the John L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution. His books include “Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Relations”, "China’s Leaders: The New
Generation" (2001), "The Road to Zhongnanhai" (2013, in Chinese), and "Chinese Politics in the Xi
Jinping Era" (2016).
Nov 04, 2013
The pessimistic outlook on China’s Third Plenum fails to capture the leadership’s momentum, sense of urgency, and collective understanding of the need to embark on big, bold and broad reforms to gain public support before it’s too late, write Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen.
