The China Nightmare

The China Nightmare

Author: Dan Blumenthal

Publisher: AEI Press

Published: 2020-10-28

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0844750328

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This is a book about China's grand strategy and its future as an ambitious, declining, and dangerous rival power. Once the darling of U.S. statesmen, corporate elites, and academics, the People's Republic of China has evolved into America's most challenging strategic competitor. Its future appears increasingly dystopian. This book tells the story of how China got to this place and analyzes where it will go next and what that will mean for the future of U.S. strategy. The China Nightmare makes an extraordinarily compelling case that China's future could be dark and the free world must prepare accordingly.


China’s Crony Capitalism

China’s Crony Capitalism

Author: Minxin Pei

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-10-03

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0674737296

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China’s efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized by corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Party rule, Minxin Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China’s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay.


Social Ethics in a Changing China

Social Ethics in a Changing China

Author: Huaihong He

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0815725728

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Over the past half-century, China has experienced some incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism and the loss of education for an entire generation during the Cultural Revolution, to the Tiananmen tragedy, the economic miracle, and its accompanying fad of money worship and the rampancy of official corruption. Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening? provides a rich empirical narrative and thought-provoking scholarly arguments, highlighting the imperative for an ethical discourse in a country that is increasingly seen by many as both a materialistic giant and a spiritual dwarf. Professor He Huaihong was not only an extraordinary firsthand witness to all of these dramas, he played a distinct role as a historian, an ethicist, and a social critic exploring the deeper intellectual and sociological origins of these events. Incorporating ethical theories with his expertise in culture, history, religion, literature, and politics of the country, He reviews the remarkable transformation of ethics and morality in the People's Republic of China and engages in a global discourse about the major ethical issues of our time. The book aims to reconstruct Chinese social ethics in an innovative philosophical framework, reflecting China's search for new virtues. Contents 1. Reconstructing China's Social Ethics 2. Historical and Sociological Origins of Chinese Cultural Norms 3. The Transformation of Ethics and Morality in the PRC 4. China's Ongoing Moral Decay? 5. Ethical Discourse in Reform Era China 6. Chinese Ethical Dialogue with the West and the World


The Coming Collapse of China

The Coming Collapse of China

Author: Gordon G. Chang

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2001-07-31

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0812977564

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China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are everywhere: Deflation grips the economy, state-owned enterprises are failing, banks are hopelessly insolvent, foreign investment continues to decline, and Communist party corruption eats away at the fabric of society. Beijing's cautious reforms have left the country stuck midway between communism and capitalism, Chang writes. With its impending World Trade Organization membership, for the first time China will be forced to open itself to foreign competition, which will shake the country to its foundations. Economic failure will be followed by government collapse. Covering subjects from party politics to the Falun Gong to the government's insupportable position on Taiwan, Chang presents a thorough and very chilling overview of China's present and not-so-distant future.


To Die and Not Decay

To Die and Not Decay

Author: Matthew V. Wells

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780924304583

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The author examines the autobiographical writing of Ge Hong (ca. 283-343) and compares it to other early texts of the genre. A minor official during the early Eastern Jin dynasty, 317-420, Ge Hong is best known for his interest in Daoism, alchemy, and techniques of longevity. But this book focuses on the two authorial postfaces appended to his most celebrated work, Baopuzi, translated as The Master Embracing Simplicity. Among his topics are the proscriptive power of genre, reading self-narrative and the self in early China, and transcending history through autobiography. Two other early texts concerning early autobiography are translated and appended in alternating paragraphs of Chinese and English.


A Story of Ruins

A Story of Ruins

Author: Wu Hung

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1861899769

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This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions between China and the West since the eighteenth century. Wu Hung leads us through an array of traditional and contemporary visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography, prints, and cinema. A Story of Ruins shows how ruins are integral to traditional Chinese culture in both architecture and pictorial forms. It traces the changes in their representation over time, from indigenous methods of recording damage and decay in ancient China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong interest in urban ruins in contemporary China, as shown in the many artworks that depict demolished houses and decaying industrial sites. The result is an original interpretation of the development of Chinese art, as well as a unique contribution to global art history.


Wealth and Power

Wealth and Power

Author: Orville Schell

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0679643478

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Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.


End of an Era

End of an Era

Author: Carl Minzner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0190672099

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China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party political system, and on the surface, their efforts have been a success. But as Carl Minzner shows, a closer look at China's reform era reveals a different truth. Over the past three decades, a frozen political system has fueled both the rise of entrenched interests within the Communist Party itself, and the systematic underdevelopment of institutions of governance among state and society at large. Economic cleavages have widened. Social unrest has worsened. Ideological polarization has deepened. Now, to address these looming problems, China's leaders are progressively cannibalizing institutional norms and practices that have formed the bedrock of the regime's stability in the reform era. End of an Era explains how China arrived at this dangerous turning point, and outlines the potential outcomes that could result.


Never Turn Back

Never Turn Back

Author: Julian Gewirtz

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0674241843

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The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization. But after Tiananmen, the Communist Party erased the reform debate from memory. Julian Gewirtz shows how the leadership expunged alternative visions of China's future and set the stage for the policing of history under Xi Jinping.