The China Questions : : Critical Insights into a Rising Power / / Jennifer Rudolph.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Rudolph, Jennifer,
• MitwirkendeR: Alford, William P.,; Bol, Peter K.,; Cohen, Paul A.,; Cooper, Richard N.,; Dillon, Nara,; Elliott, Mark,; Erickson, Andrew S.,; Fewsmith, Joseph,; Flad, Rowan,; Ghosh, Arunabh,; Goldstein, Steven M.,; Greenhalgh, Susan,; Johnston, Alastair Iain,; Kirby, William C.,; Kleinman, Arthur,; Lei, Ya-Wen,; Li, Jie,; Li, Wai-yee,; MacFarquhar, Roderick,; McElroy, Michael B.,; Owen, Stephen,; Perkins, Dwight H.,; Perry, Elizabeth J.,; Puett, Michael,; Rithmire, Meg,; Robson, James,; Ross, Robert S.,; Saich, Tony,; Szonyi, Michael,; Thornber, Karen,; Tian, Xiaofei,; Vogel, Ezra F.,; Wang, David Der-wei,; Wang, Yuhua,; Westad, Odd Arne,; Wu, Mark,; van der Kuijp, Leonard W. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 4 graphs, 2 tables

Many books offer information about the world’s most populous country, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. Thirty of the world’s leading China experts—affiliates of Harvard’s renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies—answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and their leaders tick.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. POLITICS -- 1. Is the Chinese Communist Regime Legitimate? -- 2. Can Fighting Corruption Save the Party? -- 3. Does Mao Still Matter? -- 4. What Is the Source of Ethnic Tension in China? -- 5. What Should We Know about Public Opinion in China? -- 6. What Does Longevity Mean for Leadership in China? -- 7. Can the Chinese Communist Party Learn from Chinese Emperors? -- II. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- 8. Will China Lead Asia? -- 9. How Strong Are China’s Armed Forces? -- 10. What Does the Rise of China Mean for the United States? -- 11. Is Chinese Exceptionalism Undermining China’s Foreign Policy Interests? -- 12. (When) Will Taiwan Reunify with the Mainland? -- 13. Can China and Japan Ever Get Along? -- III. ECONOMY -- 14. Can China’s High Growth Continue? -- 15. Is the Chinese Economy Headed toward a Hard Landing? -- 16. Will Urbanization Save the Chinese Economy or Destroy It? -- 17. Is China Keeping Its Promises on Trade? -- 18. How Do China’a New Rich Give Back? -- 19. What Can China Teach Us about Fighting Poverty? -- IV. ENVIRONMENT -- 20. Can China Address Air Pollution And Climate Change? -- 21. Is There Environmental Awareness In China? -- V. SOCIETY -- 22. Why Does the End of the One-Child -- 23. How Are China and Its Middle Class Handling Aging and Mental Health? -- 24. How Important Is Religion in China? -- 25. Will There Be Another Dalai Lama? -- 26. Does Law Matter in China? -- 27. Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States? -- VI. HISTORY AND CULTURE -- 28. Who Is Confucius in Today’s China? -- 29. Where Did the Silk Road Come From? -- 30. Why Do Intellectuals Matter to Chinese Politics? -- 31. Why Do Classic Chinese Novels Matter? -- 32. How Have Chinese Writers Imagined China’s Future? -- 33. Has Chinese Propaganda Won Hearts and Minds? -- 34. Why Is It Still So Hard to Talk about the Cultural Revolution? -- 35. What Is the Future of China’s Past? -- 36. How Has the Study of China Changed in the Last Sixty Years? -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index