Thе Chаnging Fаcе of Chinа: From Mаo to Mаrkеt
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-09-07
List price: $19.95
Where is China heading in the twenty-first century? Recent curtailments of liberty, such as the new "cyberwall" prohibiting internet users from reaching pro-democracy websites, has dimmed the hopes of many that China might be entering a new era of freedom on the heels of rapid economic expansion and success. Will China’s Communist Party be able to balance an economy which demands liberal reform with their own hard-line approach to government control? Or will their new economy be their undoing, as its demands on natural resources bring China to the brink of environmental disaster? In this...