China today is riddled with uncertainties. Rapid growth, economic reform, political
liberalisation and extensive engagement with the outside world are producing a political …

Thirty years ago, China was emerging from one of the most traumatic periods in its history.
The Chinese people had been ravaged by long years of domestic struggle, terrible famine …

China at the beginning of a new century still confronts the challenge it faced a hundred
years ago: can its leaders, drawing effectively upon the talents and wisdom of its diverse …

For both state and society, 1991 was a year of caution in China. Each constrained the other's
freedom of initiative in a variety of realms, and a sense of suspended animation pervaded …

Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award For decades,
China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful …

chIna's RIse has been on everyone's lips in recent years. The growth of china's economy,
the development of world-class cities, and the re-emergence of a vibrant intellectual class …

For the outside world to understand modern Chinese movements is an extremely difficult, if
not insurmountable task. This book, for the first time written by true insiders, reflects the …

The world is relearning a basic lesson about China: how it fits into international society
depends on its internal politics. The ease of relations with China from 1976 to 1989 reflected …

China's journey into the twenty-first century is a dialectic of hope and fear. There has been a
triumphant mood in the country during the past two years. Several historic events—Beijing's …

A new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it
back. The Chinese dynastic state's blend of idealism and realism, attachment to doctrine …