Understanding China Today An Exploration of Politics, Economics, Soc
This book covers numerous areas and aspects of Chinese domestic and external politics and policies, the Chinese economy, Chinese society and culture, and Chinese literature and history. It is divided into four sections, the first of which focuses on China
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Understanding China Today An Exploration of Politics, Economics, Society, and International Relations
Understanding China
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Editors
Understanding China Today An Exploration of Politics, Economics, Society, and International Relations
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Editors Silvio Beretta Department of Political and Social Sciences University of Pavia Pavia Italy
Lihong Zhang East China University of Political Science and Law Shanghai China
Axel Berkofsky Department of Political and Social Sciences University of Pavia Pavia Italy
ISSN 2196-3134 Understanding China ISBN 978-3-319-29624-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29625-8
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ISBN 978-3-319-29625-8
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Preface
Already in 1960 the historian and journalist Guy Wint wrote about China’s rapid rise and its objective to become a great power in terms of economic and political weight and influence only comparable to the United States and the former Soviet Union: a country, whose policies have an enormous impact on and consequences for the balance of power in Asia, Africa and even Europe.1 Guy Wint, as it turned out, was right. China, has after its economic opening under Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970, indeed become a great power, the world’s second biggest economy and its for
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