Knowing China - A Twenty-First Century Guide

Informationen zum Autor Frank Pieke studied cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and the University of California, Berkeley. After lectureships at Universiteit Leiden and the University of Oxford, he was appointed Chair Professor in Modern China Studies at Universiteit Leiden in 2010. Pieke's current research revolves around foreign migration to China and the changing role of the Chinese Communist Party. His books include The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today's China (2009) and Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe (2004). Klappentext A new examination of the many contradictions of contemporary China, a society at once capitalist and socialist, free and authoritarian. Zusammenfassung Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. Adopting a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations! desires! or fears! Frank N. Pieke explores twenty-first-century China as a unique kind of neo-socialist society! combining features of state socialism! neoliberal governance! capitalism! and rapid globalization. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: knowing China; 2. Why the Communist Party will not fall from power; 3. China's economy will continue to grow, but not forever; 4. Freedom without universal human rights; 5. From empire to nation, or why Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang will not be independent; 6. Not just a Chinese century; 7. Conclusion: the Communist Party and China's future; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Pieke, Frank N. Pieke, Frank N. (Universiteit Leiden) Pieke, Pieke Frank N.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2016
• EAN: 9781107587618
• ISBN: 978-1-107-58761-8
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state