China's diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers. This title provides a framework for understanding China's security diplomacy and guiding America's China policy.
In recent years, China has become a major actor in the global economy, making a remarkable switch from a planned and egalitarian socialism to a simultaneously wide-open and tightly controlled market economy. Against the establishment wisdom, Minqi Li argues in this provocative and startling book that far from strengthening capitalism, China's full ......
Economic Growth, the Environment, and Climate Change
The economic growth of China is clearly one of the defining trends of our time. The world's most populous nation is undergoing a vast transformation that will redefine the global economy.
Looks into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. This volume offers insight into the lives of peasants and China's complex social processes.
China's New Security Diplomacy and Its Implications for the United State
China's diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for the United States. U.S. policymakers have only just begun to comprehend these critical changes, however, and all too often their China policy has been incoherent.
Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs
China's dramatic transformation over the past fifteen years has drawn its share of attention and fear from the global community and world leaders. This title provides an overview of the region, highlighting key issues as they developed in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs
Organized into three thematic sections - foreign policy and national security, economic policy and social issues, and domestic politics and governance, this book includes essays that cover salient topics such as China's military power, de-communization, growing economic strength, nationalism, and the possibility for democracy.
Defends the achievements of the Chinese Revolution during the three decades from 1948 to 1979 from its detractors both in the United States and, since 1979, in China itself. This book examines the nature of the transformation attempted in China, its social and political bases, and the causes and consequences of its policies.
