The Award Tally
FictionNonfiction
Back to the full ranking
The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States cover

The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States

Ross Terrill

1

award won

8

score

The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States

Some observers expect China to become an economic superpower. Others expect it to fragment into pieces. Is China nationalistic and on the march, or is it a stumbling Communist dinosaur? Is it already a billion-citizen member of the global village? Is it, as the Clinton administration claimed, a "strategic partner" of the U.S.? Ross Terrill addresses the question upon which all these others depend: Is the People's Republic of China, whose polity is a hybrid of Chinese tradition and Western Marxism, willing to become a modern nation or does it insist on remaining an empire? Since the collapse of three thousand years of Confucian monarchy in 1911, China has neither established a successful political system nor adjusted to being a nation state. Today it stands as the most contradictory of major powers, hovering between an unsustainable tradition and a yet-to-be-born political form that would support its new society and economy. Hanging in the balance are the prospect for freedom within China (for both Chinese and non-Chinese citizens of the People's Republic), the future of America's relations with China, and the security of China's neighbors.

Buy this book at Amazon
Publisher
Hachette UK
Year
2009
ISBN-13
9780786740352
Genre
Politics & Current Affairs
Topics
China's political systemUS-China relationsChinese nationalism and empire

If you liked The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States, you could also like these

Similar Topics