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The China crisis : how China's economic collapse will lead to a global depression / James R. Gorrie.

Lippincott Library HC427.95 .G67 2013
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English
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Physical Description:
xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2013]
Summary:
Will the 21
Contents:
  • Chapter 1 A World on Edge 17
  • What Is the Proper Context in Which to Assess China Today? 18
  • China's Self-inflicted Crises 23
  • Great Leap Forward or Famine? 24
  • Cultural Revolution or Social Cannibalism? 26
  • How Has Economic Integration with the Global Economy Changed China? 30
  • Is China Becoming the. Next Superpower? 31
  • Trading Partner to the World 32
  • The World's Manufacturer 33
  • An Appetite for Commodities 34
  • Why Does China Have "Gold Fever?" 35
  • What Does the Rise of Other Nations, but Especially of China, Mean for the Current Financial System? 37
  • Marketing the China Brand 38
  • Does China Have a Bright and Powerful Future? 40
  • What's Really behind the Great Wall? 41
  • Notes 44
  • Chapter 2 Stability and Legitimacy: A Chinese Crisis from Within 47
  • What Kinds of Risks and Problems Are Typical of Unstable Nations? 48
  • Stability and Instability: What Are They? 49
  • The Source of China's "Stability" 51
  • What Are the Characteristics and Effects of Instability? 52
  • Does Stability also Mean "Legitimacy" in China? 54
  • Is Legitimacy of the Government Necessary for Stability? 55
  • Does Communist China Have a History of Stability? 56
  • Does China's Beijing Model Lead to Stability and Legitimacy? 58
  • Notes 59
  • Chapter 3 The Rising Tide of Instability 61
  • Has China Been Influenced by Western Ideas? 64
  • Sources of Rising Instability in China 66
  • Notes 96
  • Chapter 4 Is China's Economy Sustainable? 99
  • The Beijing Model: The Path Forward or Cannibal Capitalism? 100
  • What Is the Beijing Model? 104
  • Is the Beijing Model Self-Sustaining? 105
  • Notes 141
  • Chapter 5: China's Quiet Crisis: Financial and Economic Meltdown 145
  • A Perception of Strength 146
  • China's Quality of GDP 148
  • A Public and Private Stimulus Time Bomb 152
  • Development versus Economic Growth 155
  • How Much Was the Money Supply Expanded in China? 156
  • Bursting Bubbles 157
  • How Underperforming Are the Assets and the Loans Underlying Them? 159
  • China's Banks Looking for the Real Thing 161
  • Currency Manipulation and the Domestic Economy 164
  • Will the Yuan Devaluation Be Enough to Keep the Economy Going? 165
  • Inflation and Deflation Dangers 168
  • Food for Riots 169
  • Financial Endgame 172
  • Notes 174
  • Chapter 6 China's Extreme Environmental Degradation 177
  • Raging Environmental Crises 178
  • A History of Huge Mistakes 178
  • Hiding the Truth 183
  • Command Economies, Dehumanized Society, and Pollution 184
  • Pollution, Development, and Democracy 188
  • China's Lose-Lose-Lose Proposition 190
  • China's Air Pollution-Gasping For a Breath of Fresh Air 192
  • Bitter Water: China's Lakes, Rivers, and Streams of Poison 194
  • How Bad Is the Water Pollution Situation in China? 195
  • Cancer Villages and Insanity 196
  • Why Has' China's Water Pollution Gotten So Bad? 197
  • Lifeless Oceans 198
  • A Plague Upon the Land 199
  • China's Dead Zones 200
  • The Land of Arsenic 201
  • Why Is Such Pollution Tolerated? 202
  • CCP Land Policies Promote Abuse 203
  • Losing the Breadbasket 204
  • The Deforestation and Desertification of China 207
  • What Is the Real Cause of Desertification? 210
  • Ghosts of Famines Past 211
  • Notes 214
  • Chapter 7 Political Transition and the Breaking Point 223
  • Will Xi Jinping Unify the CCP? 227
  • Liberalization versus Stability 231
  • Passing the Torch: China's New Nationalism 232
  • Domestic Crises for the New Leadership 237
  • How Will the New Chinese Leadership Navigate the Rough Waters Ahead? 240
  • Hell and High Water 244
  • Notes 244
  • Chapter 8 Empire Decline and Complexity Theory 247
  • China as an Empire 248
  • Hong Kong 256
  • Taiwan 257
  • China's Uighur Problem in Xinjiang 258
  • The Sandals and Saffron Threat of Tibet 260
  • Fear and Greed in the New Leadership 262
  • Complexity Theory 263
  • Notes 270
  • Chapter 9 The Fall of the Red Dragon 273
  • China's War with China 275
  • The Breakup 279
  • Conclusion 283
  • Notes 284.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Gorrie, James R. China crisis
ISBN:
  • 9781118470770
  • 111847077X
OCLC:
811597299

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