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China's Uncertain Future / Jean-Luc Domenach.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231152259
  • 9780231526456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.06 23
LOC classification:
  • DS779.4 .D6613 2012
  • DS779.4 .D6613 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The New "Chinese Moment" -- Book I. Measure for Measure -- Book II. The Acid Test -- Book III. The Great Riddles of the Future -- Conclusion: China's Great Challenge -- Afterword: China Moves Toward a Consumer Economy -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Based on his experience as a scholar and diplomat stationed in China, Jean-Luc Domenach consults a wealth of archival and contemporary materials to examine China's place in the world. A sympathetic yet critical observer, Domenach brings his intimate knowledge of the country to bear on a range of crucial issues, such as the growth (or deterioration) of China's economy, the government's ever-delayed democratization, the potential outcomes of a national political crisis, and the possible escalation of a revamped authoritarianism.Domenach ultimately reads China's current progress as a set of easy accomplishments presaging a more difficult era of development. His finely nuanced analysis captures the difficult decisions now confronting China's elite, who are under tremendous pressure to support an economy based on innovation and consumption, establish a political system based on law and popular participation, rethink their national identity and spatial organization, and define a more positive approach to the world's problems. These leaders are also besieged by corruption among their ranks, an increasingly restless urban population, and a sharp decline in the country's demographic growth. Domenach taps into these anxieties and the attempt to alleviate them, revealing a China much less confident and secure than many would believe.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The New "Chinese Moment" -- Book I. Measure for Measure -- Book II. The Acid Test -- Book III. The Great Riddles of the Future -- Conclusion: China's Great Challenge -- Afterword: China Moves Toward a Consumer Economy -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Based on his experience as a scholar and diplomat stationed in China, Jean-Luc Domenach consults a wealth of archival and contemporary materials to examine China's place in the world. A sympathetic yet critical observer, Domenach brings his intimate knowledge of the country to bear on a range of crucial issues, such as the growth (or deterioration) of China's economy, the government's ever-delayed democratization, the potential outcomes of a national political crisis, and the possible escalation of a revamped authoritarianism.Domenach ultimately reads China's current progress as a set of easy accomplishments presaging a more difficult era of development. His finely nuanced analysis captures the difficult decisions now confronting China's elite, who are under tremendous pressure to support an economy based on innovation and consumption, establish a political system based on law and popular participation, rethink their national identity and spatial organization, and define a more positive approach to the world's problems. These leaders are also besieged by corruption among their ranks, an increasingly restless urban population, and a sharp decline in the country's demographic growth. Domenach taps into these anxieties and the attempt to alleviate them, revealing a China much less confident and secure than many would believe.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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