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What Does China Think?

By Mark Leonard

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| Paperback | 9780007230686

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We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just thirty years, and that its impact on the globaContinue

We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just thirty years, and that its impact on the global economy is growing at unprecedented speed. We have an image of China as a dictatorship; a nationalist empire that threatens its neighbors and global peace.

But how many people know about the debates raging within China? What do we really know about the kind of society China wants to become? What ideas are motivating its citizens? We can name America's neo-cons and the religious right, but cannot name Chinese writers, thinkers, or journalists—what is the future they dream of for their country, or for the world? Because China's rise— like the fall of Rome or the British Raj—will echo down generations to come, these are the questions we increasingly need to ask. Mark Leonard asks us to forget everything we thought we knew about China and start again. He introduces us to the thinkers who are shaping China's wide open future and opens up a hidden world of intellectual debate that is driving a new Chinese revolution and changing the face of the world.

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  • What Does China Think? By Mark Leonard

    In the dust jacket blurb for Mark Leonard's What Does China Think? rests an important pair of sentences: "Very few things that happen in our lifetime will be remembered after we are dead. But China's rise is different, like the rise and fall of Rome ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

  • What Does China Think

    "Just in case you thought there was no internal debate about China's future, here is evidence to the contrary." So says former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten on the back cover of this new book by MARK LEONARD. Does anyone, anyone who reads a newspap ... (read full critics)

    asianreviewofbooks published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 224 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0007230680
  • ISBN-13: 9780007230686
  • Publisher: Harper Collins Publ. UK
  • Pub date: Jan 31, 2008
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages 繁體書
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