49 myths about China / Marte Kjær Galtung and Stig Stenslie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galtung, Marte Kjær, 1976- author.

Stenslie, Stig, author.

Standardized Title:

49 myter om Kina. English

Language:

English

Norwegian

Subjects (All):

China--Miscellanea.

China.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

xvii, 247 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Forty-nine myths about China

Place of Publication:

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Language Note:

Translated from the Norwegian.

Contents:

Part I. The party

Myth 1: Communism is dead in China

Myth 2: China is centrally controlled

Myth 3: The leadership is deeply divided

Myth 4: The Communist Party is a monolith

Myth 5: The military is gaining political influence

Myth 6: The Communist regime lacks legitimacy

Myth 7: The Falun Gong is an apolitical movement that is persecuted for its religious beliefs

Myth 8: Chinese media is just a mouthpiece of the Communist Party

Part II. The people

Myth 9: Chinese culture is incompatible with democracy

Myth 10: Chinese have no manners

Myth 11: Chinese people are not altruistic

Myth 12: The individual has no value, only the collective does

Myth 13: All Chinese are only children

Myth 14: The Chinese people are homogeneous

Myth 15: Communism has created gender equality in China

Myth 16: The Chinese are atheists

Myth 17: Shanghai is more liberal than Beijing

Part III. Business and the economy

Myth 18: "China Inc." is buying up the world

Myth 19: China has the United States over a barrel

Myth 20: China's economy is export-driven

Myth 21: Chinese people are born moneymakers

Myth 22: The Chinese don't take risks

Myth 23: The Chinese are just copycats

Myth 24: The state hinders economic development in China

Myth 25: Unequal distribution of wealth is a source of social and political unrest

Myth 26: All economic development is happening in the big cities on China's east coast

Part IV. China and the world

Myth 27: The Chinese are racist

Myth 28: The Communist Party is kindling nationalism

Myth 29: China will once again dominate East Asia

Myth 30: China is colonizing Africa

Myth 31: China is an environmental baddie

Myth 32: The Chinese could tame North Korea ... if they wanted to

Myth 33: China does not interfere in other states' internal affairs

Part V. The past

Myth 34: China's history spans five millennia

Myth 35: China is called the "Middle Kingdom" because Chinese people believe their country is the center of the world

Myth 36: China discovered the world in 1421

Myth 37: All women were oppressed in ancient China

Myth 38: China has no warrior culture

Myth 39: Chinese history goes in circles

Myth 40: Tibet was a "Shangri-La" until the Chinese came

Myth 41: Mao was a monster

Myth 42: The Chinese do not care about their own historical heritage

Part VI. The future

Myth 43: The Internet will topple the Communist Party

Myth 44: The end of the Communist regime is near

Myth 45: The Chinese are masters of long-term thinking

Myth 46: The RMB will eclipse the dollar as the world's reserve currency

Myth 47: China is a military threat

Myth 48: Chinese will replace English as the world's language

Myth 49: The twenty-first century belongs to China.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index.

ISBN:

9781442236226

1442236221

OCLC:

879246581