Cover ; Series ; The China€Reader ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; The Complexities of a Rising China ; Rising€China ; I. Viewing China's Rise:€Alternative Perspectives ; The Eight Differences That Define China
China's "Peaceful Rise" to Great-Power Status China's Unpeaceful Rise ; The Illusion of Chinese Power ; Politics ; I. Elite Politics ; Elite Politics:€The Struggle for Normality ; II. Dissent ; Charter '08 ; For Freedom, Justice, and Love:€My Closing Statement to the Court
III. Ideology Achieving New Victory for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics ; Ideology in China:€Confucius Makes a Comeback-. You Can't Keep a Good Sage Down ; Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere ; IV. The Future of the CCP
Making Party Building More Scientific in All Respects Speech on the 65th Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress [Excerpts] ; Is CCP Rule Fragile or Resilient? ; Economic Development ; I. Building an Economic Superpower
China:€Economy-. Overview Economic Growth From High-. Speed to High-. Quality ; Accelerating the Improvement of the Socialist Market Economy and the Change of the Growth Model ; II. State Capacity and Governance ; China's Governance Crisis ; III. Going Global
Summary
The rise of China is the most important development in world affairs. During the past three decades China dramatically modernized its economy and taken a positon as one of the two major powers in the world. For all of its newfound prowess, China's rise has not been a smooth process. The China Reader chronicles and catalogues these complexities
