Overview

Now updated with a chapter-length afterword by the editors on theend of the Deng era and its aftermath, China in the 1990sprovides a comprehensive survey of a nation in transition. Anunderstanding of this complex process requires a multidisciplinary andmultidimensional approach, which the editors have achieved by bringingtogether experts from Britain, the United States, Europe, Australia,and Hong Kong who examine China's economic, political, military,cultural and social achievements and problems. The difficulties China still faces are enormous, some of them of itsown making: pollution, urban sprawl, the insecurity of food supplies,the risks of political authoritarianism and the perils ofliberalisation. Its population is still growing dramatically and islikely to be 1.5 billion by 2015, three times what it was when theP.R.C. was established in 1949. But since embarking on a reformprogramme which, at the time seemed experimental and hard to reconcilewith official ideology, it has gone from being the 'sick man ofAsia' to being one of the world's largest and fastestdeveloping economies in what now looks to be a remarkably effective andwell-managed transition.

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Author:   Robert Benewick ,  Paul Wingrove
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Edition:   2nd
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780774806718

ISBN 10:   0774806710
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   01 January 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Foreword to the Revised Edition Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Perspectives on the 1990s 1. The Tiananmen Crackdown and its Legacy 2. The Decline of Ideocracy 3. China's Political Structure 4. Leadership Politics since 1989 5. Centre and Province in China 6. Civil Society 7. Justice and the Legal System in China 8. Young Offenders and Juvenile Justice 9. Collectivism, Contractualism and Crisis in the ChineseCountryside 10. Village Politics 11. New Economic Elites 12. Industry and the Urban Economy 13. The People's Liberation Army and the Market Economy 14. Trade and Development: The Political Economy of China's OpenPolicy 15. Gender in China 16. Population and Family Policies 17. Family Strategies: Securing the Future 18. Social Welfare Reforms 19. Chinese Literature and Film in the 1990s 20. China's Foreign Policy in the Post-1989 Era 21. China and the Pacific Rim Afterword: China: Reforms and Beyond Chronology Guide to Further Reading Bibliography Index

Reviews

With an impressive bibliography and an excellent short guide to further reading, this collection is an informative guide to the rapidly changing and unpredictable Chinese polity for the undergraduate. Sinophiles should find something of merit in this account of a potential superpower awakening from its slumber. -- Neil J McFadyean Europe-Asia Studies

With an impressive bibliography and an excellent short guide to further reading, this collection is an informative guide to the rapidly changing and unpredictable Chinese polity for the undergraduate. Sinophiles should find something of merit in this account of a potential superpower awakening from its slumber. -- Neil J McFadyean * Europe-Asia Studies *

With an impressive bibliography and an excellent short guide to further reading, this collection is an informative guide to the rapidly changing and unpredictable Chinese polity for the undergraduate. Sinophiles should find something of merit in this account of a potential superpower awakening from its slumber. - Neil J McFadyean, 'Europe-Asia Studies'

Author Information

Robert Benewick is Research Professor of Politics atthe University of Sussex. Paul Wingrove is SeniorLecturer in Politics at the University of Greenwich.

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