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The Origin, Process, and Outcome of China's Reforms in the Past One Hundred Years: The Chinese Quest for National Rejuvenation
Author(s): Enbao Wang (Author), Yu Bin (Foreword)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
- Publication Date: 5 Nov. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 383 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773439048
- ISBN-13: 9780773439047
Book Description
This book attempts to comprehensively review China’s quest for national rejuvenation in the last hundred years, with emphasis on the period from 1978 to 2008. It examines China’s achievements in economic development and modernization as well as the challenges it is facing, the reasons for China’s accomplishment, its pursuit of a democratic system, Deng Xiaoping Theory as new political ideology, and the peaceful rise foreign policy. This book pays more attention to the views of the mainland Chinese (including China’s political leaders, officials, scholars, journalists, the media,and political dissidents) on their nation’s recent rise, particularly China’s strategies and policies for development and relations with the Western-dominated world system.
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From the Back Cover
This book attempts to comprehensively review China’s quest for national rejuvenation in the last hundred years, with emphasis on the period from 1978 to 2008. It examines China’s achievements in economic development and modernization as well as the challenges it is facing, the reasons for China’s accomplishment, its pursuit of a democratic system, Deng Xiaoping Theory as new political ideology, and the peaceful rise foreign policy. This book pays more attention to the views of the mainland Chinese (including China’s political leaders, officials, scholars, journalists, the media,and political dissidents) on their nation’s recent rise, particularly China’s strategies and policies for development and relations with the Western-dominated world system.
About the Author
Dr.Wang is Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science Department at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alabama.
