The People's Republic of China Today: Internal and External Challenges PDF
472 Pages·2010·6.204 MB·English
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Despite the significant progress it had achieved in the past 60 years, especially in the past 30 years since Deng Xiaoping's reform initiatives in the late 1970s, China faces daunting challenges today. These challenges include, among others, a rigid political system that does not match economic vibrancy, uneven economic growth and widening income gap, a graying population, environmental degradation, potential social instability, ethnic tensions and separatist movement, poor international image, and military modernization. Based on papers originally presented at an international conference held Read more... Foreword : delving into the challenges confronting China / David M. Lampton -- Introduction : the People's Republic of China today / Zhiqun Zhu -- China's leadership succession and change / Weixing Chen -- A tragic miscarriage : how China's quest for political reform is undercut by the China model / Yawei Liu -- Concluding the complex learning process : the Chinese elites' acceptance of outward-oriented development / Lawrence C. Reardon -- Political accountability in governance : an informative appraisal of China's political change / Yuchao Zhu -- Liberalism and its impact on China's reform / He Li -- China's demographic dividends : past gains and future pains / Ding Lu -- Smashing the iron rice bowls : severing ties between the Chinese state and socialist workers / Jin Zeng -- Developing a PAYGO social security system in China : retrospect and prospect / Lin Ye -- An unprecedented challenge : can the Internet be successfully controlled? / Junhao Hong -- Spiritual beliefs and ethnic relations in China : a cross-cultural and social psychological perspective / Yueh-Ting Lee and Hong Li -- Tourism, modernization, and nation-building : the case of the Yangzi delta / Cecilia L.F. Chien -- China's public diplomacy in a new era / Zhaoying Han -- Foreign publicity with weak political credibility : a case study of Beijing's foreign publicity over the Tibet riots / Sheng Ding -- China's search for energy and climate security in an interdependent world / Jean Garrison -- The coming of a prosperous China with strong military power / David Lai -- Extended horizon : China's blue-water navy ambition and its implications / Qiang Xin -- Alternative perspectives on US-China relations / Eric Hyer -- Whither China in the 21st century? / Zhiqun Zhu
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