"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:...