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Ross Terrill The New Chinese Empire: Bejing's Political Dilemma And What It Means For The United States
Basic Books 2003 0465084125 / 9780465084128 Hardcover Very Good
"'Hardcover with dust jacket, Very Good, clean, tight, unmarked: corners, top & bottom of spined bumped: DJ has wrinkling and chipping. Is the People's Republic of China willing to become a modern nation, asks Terrill, or does it insist on remaining an empire? What will the China of the future look like and how might political change occur? Emphasizing present-day, post-Mao China's essential continuities with its 2,500-year-old imperial roots, the author describes the emerging tension between old and new as rooted in long and familiar historical tensions: the needs of the individual versus those of the state, Confucianism versus legalism, and an ''us-versus-them'' approach to foreign policy. The Chinese state has seen many political changes--indeed, revolutions--but these states have often wielded power similarly, especially regarding the rights of the individual, the treatment of territories like Taiwan and Hong Kong, and an insistence on centralized power. These deeply held imperia...'' ID: mon0000002194"
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