Some observers expect China to become an economic superpower. Others expect it to fragment into pieces. Is China nationalistic and on the march, or is it a stumbling Communist …
This is a book of China's own political narrative written by one of China's leading and best- known thinkers. It is the last part of the author's' China Trilogy', which is a best-seller in …
China Under Communism examines how Marxism took root, flourished and developed within the context of an ancient Chinese civilization. Through analysis of China's history and …
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 …
“Thoughtful, probing... a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.”—William C. Kirby, coauthor …
When the Qing dynasty fell in 1912, some Chinese saw it primarily as the return to Han Chinese rule and the end of Manchu dominance: this was just and therefore a return to …
S Zhao - Journal of contemporary China, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Looking to China's imperial history to understand how China as a great power will behave in the twenty-first century, some scholars have rediscovered the concept of the traditional …
As all former Leninist dictatorships, rulers in Beijing also confront a crisis of legitimation. 1 Surface tranquillity in China hides moving tectonic forces that are reshaping Chi na's …
“Keyu Jin is a brilliant thinker.”—Tony Blair, former prime minster of the United Kingdom A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy …