China Today China Tomorrow: Domestic Politics Economy and Society (Hardcover)

In this timely book a group of leading scholars provides a comprehensive assessment of China s polity economy and society. Taking the thirtieth anniversary of Beijing s adoption of reform and opening as an occasion to reflect on the course of development over the past three decades the contributors consider where the country may be going in the future. Just as China has had enormous success in developing its economy it continues to face equally enormous challenges across a wide variety of issues including inequality social protest energy the environment and a resurgence of religion. As a polity China has tried to build a modern legal system while balancing center-local relations sustaining a viable ideological framework and maintaining stable politics at the elite level. At the same time the current global economic crisis poses a major obstacle to China s model of development. Authoritative accessible and current this book will be an invaluable resource for all readers interested in the fate of a rising global power. Contributions by: Edward A. Cunningham Joseph Fewsmith Sebastian Heilmann Jamie Horsley Joanna Lewis Yawei Liu Barry Naughton Elizabeth J. Perry Ren Jiantao Carl Riskin Sun Yanfei Robert Weller Min Ye and Yongnian Zheng.