Description: This reader offers the most comprehensive assessment of Chinese domestic politics available by bringing together the best recent scholarship in the field. The anthology focuses on the origin, content, and significance of the post-1989 phase of China's reform and opening to the...
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"This impressive anthology presents a selection of articles on China's post-Mao reform, which together offer a detailed analysis of their political and economic effects both in China and abroad." --Foreign Affairs
"This comprehensive anthology of China's domestic politics presents revised and updated book chapters and journal articles by leading China scholars. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice Reviews "A comprehensive collection of high-quality papers on contemporary Chinese politics." --The China Journal "Lowell Dittmer and Guoli Liu have created a remarkably comprehensive anthology of some of the most incisive analyses of the fundamental trends and challenges of contemporary Chinese political, economic, and societal reality. Moreover, their introduction and conclusion provide an elegant overview of the evolution of reform-era China, from Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin and now Hu Jintao, and of the challenges that remain." --Brantly Womack, University of Virginia "This collection of essays by some of the leading China scholars in the United States is both an invaluable reference for students and scholars of contemporary China and an excellent reader for graduate and undergraduate Chinese politics courses." --Weixing Chen, East Tennessee State University "This is a fine collection of some of the best journal articles and book chapters in the contemporary Chinese politics field. Its comprehensive coverage makes it eminently suitable for classroom use and for those wishing to gain an informed and insightful overview of the state of the field." --Thomas P. Bernstein, Columbia University