Written for a popular audience, a concise and up-to-date survey lays out the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China political and economic situation, from the succession to Deng Xiaoping to China's rule of Hong Kong.
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"Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations . . . ["Understanding China"] provides an excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country." --Lucian W. Pye, " The New York Times Book Review"
Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations . . . [Understanding China] provides an excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country. Lucian W. Pye, The New York Times Book Review"
"Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations . . . [Understanding China] provides an excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country." --Lucian W. Pye, The New York Times Book Review
John Bryan Starr is a lecturer in the Political Science Department at Yale University and serves as a consultant to the Tri-State Consortium. He has served as president of both the Yale China Association and the China Institute in New York City.
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Hardback. Condition: Good. In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future.After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at stake in China's present and future. In the new edition, Starr seamlessly weaves in additional material on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government's ongoing efforts to curb the influence of the Internet, and the intensifying trade disputes between the United States and China. Succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright, Understanding China remains a necessary guide for the uninitiated to everything from the Chinese economy and political system, to its intellectual freedoms and human rights, to its relationship with the rest of the world. Seller Inventory # CIN0809094886G
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