China’s Rigid Stability – Yu Jianrong analyses a predicament

Foreign Policy named Yu Jianrong one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers and described the famous scholar who works in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing as a ‘rare Chinese academic who has taken up the challenge of defining how exactly China could change course’. In his recent writings, Yu reflects both upon social stability and reform – two equally beloved concepts of the Chinese party-state.