In Time Magazine, Orville Schell profiles the enigma that is Hu Jintao, a runner-up in this year’s Person of the Year contest:
Right now, China, the most populous, economically dynamic and politically intriguing nation in the world, is on everybody’s mind. As the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing draw nearer, China’s role as industrial park to the world has been highlighted, brought into focus by product-safety scandals, environmental disasters and trade disputes. How can this infinitely complex nation be led? And what do we know about the man who leads it, Hu Jintao?
Not much. [Full text]
The article includes a slideshow of Hu’s life. (Thanks to Japhet Weeks for the links)
Also in Chinese cyberspace, netizens dug out a propaganda article published in the People’s Daily on Oct. 6, 1964, written by Hu Jintao while he was a student and Party cadre in Tsinghua University.
[Image via Time]
