The China questions : critical insights into a rising power / [edited by] Michael Szonyi, Jennifer Rudolph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudolph, Jennifer, Author.

Contributor:

Rudolph, Jennifer, editor.

Szonyi, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--China.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Szonyi, Michael

I. POLITICS

1. Is the Chinese Communist Regime Legitimate? / Perry, Elizabeth J.

2. Can Fighting Corruption Save the Party? / Fewsmith, Joseph

3. Does Mao Still Matter? / MacFarquhar, Roderick

4. What Is the Source of Ethnic Tension in China? / Elliott, Mark

5. What Should We Know about Public Opinion in China? / Lei, Ya-Wen

6. What Does Longevity Mean for Leadership in China? / Ghosh, Arunabh

7. Can the Chinese Communist Party Learn from Chinese Emperors? / Wang, Yuhua

II. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

8. Will China Lead Asia? / Westad, Odd Arne

9. How Strong Are China’s Armed Forces? / Erickson, Andrew S.

10. What Does the Rise of China Mean for the United States? / Ross, Robert S.

11. Is Chinese Exceptionalism Undermining China’s Foreign Policy Interests? / Johnston, Alastair Iain

12. (When) Will Taiwan Reunify with the Mainland? / Goldstein, Steven M.

13. Can China and Japan Ever Get Along? / Vogel, Ezra F.

III. ECONOMY

14. Can China’s High Growth Continue? / Cooper, Richard N.

15. Is the Chinese Economy Headed toward a Hard Landing? / Perkins, Dwight H.

16. Will Urbanization Save the Chinese Economy or Destroy It? / Rithmire, Meg

17. Is China Keeping Its Promises on Trade? / Wu, Mark

18. How Do China’a New Rich Give Back? / Saich, Tony

19. What Can China Teach Us about Fighting Poverty? / Dillon, Nara

IV. ENVIRONMENT

20. Can China Address Air Pollution And Climate Change? / McElroy, Michael B.

21. Is There Environmental Awareness In China? / Thornber, Karen

V. SOCIETY

22. Why Does the End of the One-Child / Greenhalgh, Susan

23. How Are China and Its Middle Class Handling Aging and Mental Health? / Kleinman, Arthur

24. How Important Is Religion in China? / Robson, James

25. Will There Be Another Dalai Lama? / van der Kuijp, Leonard W. J.

26. Does Law Matter in China? / Alford, William P.

27. Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States? / Kirby, William C.

VI. HISTORY AND CULTURE

28. Who Is Confucius in Today’s China? / Puett, Michael

29. Where Did the Silk Road Come From? / Flad, Rowan

30. Why Do Intellectuals Matter to Chinese Politics? / Bol, Peter K.

31. Why Do Classic Chinese Novels Matter? / Li, Wai-yee

32. How Have Chinese Writers Imagined China’s Future? / Wang, David Der-wei

33. Has Chinese Propaganda Won Hearts and Minds? / Li, Jie

34. Why Is It Still So Hard to Talk about the Cultural Revolution? / Tian, Xiaofei

35. What Is the Future of China’s Past? / Owen, Stephen

36. How Has the Study of China Changed in the Last Sixty Years? / Cohen, Paul A.

Further Reading.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's website, viewed August 29, 2018).

ISBN:

9780674983335

0674983335

9780674982703

0674982703

OCLC:

1018307931