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RADIO FREE ASIA TO AIR BOOK ON CHINA'S LEADERSHIP.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 PRNewswire-Asianet - Radio Free Asia (RFA) will begin broadcasting excerpts from "Disidai" ("The Fourth Generation") -- an inside account of China's leadership transition -- starting Tuesday, Oct.1.
The broadcasts will air daily on shortwave at 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. Chinese time. They will conclude Nov. 8, when the 16th Communist Party Congress convenes in Beijing. Audio excerpts will also be available on RFA's Web site at http://www.rfa.org .
RFA's Mandarin service has secured exclusive, worldwide Mandarin-language broadcast rights to "Disidai" (New York: Mirror Books, 2002), written under the pseudonym Zong Hairen.
The book predicts that President Jiang Zemin, 76, will step down as party chief during the Party Congress and hand over the presidency in March, despite reports that aides have asked him to consider staying on. The presumptive new leaders are proponents of both modernization and authoritarian rule, according to two American scholars, Bruce Gilley and Andrew Nathan, who worked with Zong to publish the book in English.
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Source: HighBeam Research, RADIO FREE ASIA TO AIR BOOK ON CHINA'S LEADERSHIP.