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Synopsis
This is the comprehensive study on China. John Bryan Starr has thoroughly researched the changes in the country's politics, military history, society, culture and China's notoriously vicious human rights policy. He looks at the challenges the country is facing at present and analyses how it can survive as one of the few bastions of communism in the 21st century.
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An excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country. Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations, Starr's book is straightforward and unpretentious, like the presentations of an informed tour guide. (New York Times Book Review)
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John Bryan Starr examines changes in China's politics, military history, society, culture and human rights policy. He sticks closely to the facts, avoiding theoretical interpretations that are not tethered to evidence. He identifies the fundamental problems confronting China today and then asks whether the Chinese political system is up to the task of resolving them. By the time he has finished reviewing the problems of environmental degradation, inadequate infrastructure, population growth, failed state-owned enterprises, underfinanced education and the rise in both rural and urban discontent he has no alternative but to reach a cautiously pessimistic position: that the most likely prospect for China is an eventual collapse of the party-state system, a development that he believes could be followed by the People's Liberation Army taking on a semi-praetorian role.
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- PublisherProfile Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1861972628
- ISBN 13 9781861972620
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages352
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