Introduction: China is the Future -- Officials, Dissidents, and Citizen Intellectuals -- Strategic Futures and the Post-American World Order -- The China Model and the Search for Wealth and Power -- Cosmopolitan, Fundamentalist and Racialist Dreams -- Shanghai's Alternative Futures and China's New Civil Society -- The American Dream and Chinese Exceptionalism -- Scenario: A Chimerican Dream -- Who's Who
Summary
After celebrating their country's three decades of fantastic economic success, many Chinese are now asking, "What comes next?" How can China convert its growing economic power into political and cultural influence around the globe? This book gives voice to China's many different futures by exploring the grand aspirations and deep anxieties of a broad group of public intellectuals. Stepping outside the narrow politics of officials vs. dissidents, the author examines what a third group--"citizen intellectuals"--think about China's future
