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The chapters in this latest edition of China Briefing reflect broadly on China's transformation in the twentieth century. The authors not only examine developments in China over the 1997-1999 period, but also place these events in a wider historical perspective by addressing the following questions: Where has China traveled over the course of the century? To what extent has it been transformed, and how? What are the enduring themes or points of continuity, even during a century of great change and transformation? And what are China's prospects for the future?
List of contents
Introduction; Historical Echoes and Chinese Politics: Can China Leave the Twentieth Century Behind?; The Chinese Economy: Fifty Years into the Transformation; Power, Patronage, and Protest in Rural China; The Shape of Society: The Changing Demography of Development; Promises and Pitfalls of Reform: New Thinking in Post-Deng China; The Politics of Consumerism in Chinese Society; Gender and Nationalism in China at the Turn of the Millennium; Dangerous Liaisons: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States at the Turn of the Century; The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same: The World, the United States, and the People's Republic of China, 1949-1999; Chronology 1997-1999; Historical Chronology of the Twentieth Century: 1895-1996
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Jay D White, William A. Joseph
Summary
Reflections on China's 20th-century transformation. Contributors explore developments over the 1997-1999 period and place them in a wider historical perspective by examining: where China has travelled; what has changed and how much; the century's enduring themes; and prospects for the future.
