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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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Current History Books S |
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Current History Books S
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Introduction: Is China's transformation sustainable? / David B. H. Denoon -- Part I: Foreign policy and national security -- The people's army: serving whose interests? / June Teufel Dreyer -- Uncertainty, insecurity, and China's military power / Paul H. B. Godwin -- Does China have a grand strategy? / Michael D. Swaine -- Sino-American relations since September 11: can the new stability last? / David Shambaugh -- Asia in the balance: America and China's "peaceful rise" / Robert Sutter -- Part II: Economic policy and social issues -- The long march from Mao: China's de-communization / Liu Binyan -- China's north-south split and the forces of disintegration / Edward Friedman -- The dangers of economic complacency / Barry Naughton -- Rumblings from the Uyghur / Dru C. Gladney -- Beijing's ambivalent reformers / Bruce J. Dickson -- China's new exchange rate regime / Barry Eichengreen -- Part III: Domestic politics and governance -- Is democracy possible? / Merle Goldman -- The leader in the shadows: a view of Deng Xiaoping / Lucian W. Pye -- Village elections: democracy from the bottom up? / Tyrene White -- An all-consuming nationalism / Michael Dutton -- Understanding Falun Gong / Richard Madsen -- China's new leadership: the challenges to the politics of muddling through / Tony Saich -- China's environmental challenge / Elizabeth Economy -- Chronology of recent events -- About the contributors |
| Summary |
China's dramatic transformation over the past fifteen years has drawn its share of attention and fear from the global community and world leaders. Far from the inward-looking days of the Cultural Revolution, modern China today is the world's fourth largest economy, with a net product larger than that of France and the United Kingdom. And China's dynamism is by no means limited to its economy: enrollments in secondary and higher education are rapidly expanding, and new means of communication are vastly increasing information available to the Chinese public. In two decades, the Chinese governmen |
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Print version record |
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HISTORY / Asia / China.
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Politics and government.
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Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
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History & Archaeology.
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East Asia.
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China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024175
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China -- Politics and government -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004009498
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China.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814785416 |
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0814785417 |
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