China Modernizes
Threat to the West or Model for the Rest?
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 April 2008
- ISBN 9780199226122
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages430 pages
- Size 235x156x22 mm
- Weight 659 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 Figures and 10 Tables 0
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Short description:
Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today; one of a rising superpower, and the other of an anachronistic, authoritarian regime. So which is the real China? Randall Peerenboom offers a controversial, first-hand account of modern China focusing on its economic, political and legal attributes within the context of the developing world.
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Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today. On the one hand a rising superpower predicted to have the largest economy in the world by mid century, on the other hand a brutal, anachronistic and authoritarian regime, a threat to geo-stability and to the economies of the industrial world. So which China is the real China? Randall Peerenboom addresses this question by exploring China's economy, political and legal system, and most controversially, its record on civil, political and personal rights in the context of the developing world. Avoiding polemic and relying on empirical evidence, he compares China's performance not with first world countries such as the US and UK but with other middle income countries and highlights the often hypocritical stance of an international community which demands standards from others that it does not match at home. He also critically evaluates the benefits of globalisation and democratisation and the normative values of the West set against Beijing's determination to retain its cultural and political integrity.
This book seeks to bridge the gap in understanding about China and to create a firmer foundation for mutual trust, while recognising that there are inevitable risks in a shift in global power of this magnitude that will require hard headed pragmatism at times where interests collide.
Relies heavily on empirical studies to aid taking right decisions. These features make this book so special and worth reading.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Two Opposing Views of China
Déj? vu all over again: China and the East Asian Model
Taking rights seriously? Official policy and actual practice
Social and economic rights, law and order, women's rights and cultural rights
Of rights and wrongs: Why China is subject to a double standard on rights
Institutional reform: rule of law and good governance
Debating democracy
What if China democratizes? What if it doesn't?
Conclusion: modernity with modesty- the strength and limits of the EAM
