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Article: Hu Jintao and the Ascendancy of China: A Dialectical Study

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Hu Jintao and the Ascendancy of China: A Dialectical Study, by Peter Yu KienHong. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2005. xiv + 240 pp. S$29.00/US$22.00 (paperback).

This title is a misnomer, because the book has virtually nothing to do with either Hu Jintao or the ascendancy of China. The book is an illogical, incoherent and at times absurd presentation of Peter Yu Kien-Hong's all-purpose dialectical model, which he says was fifteen years in the making and the basis of three books of which the present is the latest. Yu is determined to demonstrate that his model is so superior to all existing ones that it could even effect a "paradigm shift" in China studies (p. 197).

Yu initially ...

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