Direct Verzonden Mandate of Heaven A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China’s Future – Orville Schell

This astonishing new book by Orville Schell, for thirty years America’s foremost chronicler of contemporary China, offers a unique look at the China of the mid-’90s and the generation that stands poised to inherit the “mandate of heaven,” the right to govern the world’s largest nation. China’s current leaders – already in their eighties and nineties – will soon be leaving the country’s political scene. Their departure raises the ultimate question: Who will assume power? The generation that was the natural h…