China's three decades of rapid rise and its economic slowdown of the past few years have led to an increasingly heated debate about how the country's post-Mao modernization drive will evolve. Thus far, a majority of analyses and predictions on the status of the Chinese economy, the fate of its authoritarian political system, and the strategies and behaviors of Chinese foreign policy have been contributed by a growing number of China scholars and observers in academia, policy making, and the media. Rarely have the views of people with power and influence in China—those high-level party officials, government bureaucrats, policy analysts from government-affiliated think tanks, business leaders from public and private corporations, famed public intellectuals, and renowned scholars in China's academic institutions—been systematically analyzed with regard to China's national trajectory. By examining how Chinese elites think about their own country's future, Daniel Lynch's well-researched new book—China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate...
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November 01 2016
China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy
China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy
. By Daniel C. Lynch. Stanford, Calif.
: Stanford University Press
, 2015
. 252 pp. ISBN: 9780804794190 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).
Sheng Ding
Sheng Ding
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1122–1123.
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Sheng Ding; China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy. Journal of Asian Studies 1 November 2016; 75 (4): 1122–1123. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911816001339
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