Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-1-4422-2537-4 • Hardback • July 2015 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
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François Godement is professor of political science at Sciences Po, director of the Asia program of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and a non-resident senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His English-language books are The New Asian Renaissance and Downsizing Asia.
Introduction
1 Inside the Chongqing Furnace
2 Rich Country, Poor People
3 Separate Worlds
4 Crossing the River, or the Impossible Political Transition
5 China Inc., the Hybrid Economy
6 Reform without Elections
7 Wukan, or the Possibility of an Election
8 2009—The Turning Point
9 Nationalism: An Alibi for Great Power Realism
10 A Faulty Diagnosis
11 Integration vs. Sovereignty: The Strategy Debate
Conclusion: Xi Jinping Resets China
About the Author
Contemporary China: Between Mao and Market belongs in current events, China affairs and political science collections alike as it provides an overview of modern Chinese society from an international scholar who narrows the focus to the country's last few decades of events. From its changing policies (both internally and externally) to the most recent events affecting its foreign policy and relationships, chapters offer many behind-the-scenes insights into how decisions are made, the state of political and social reforms and sentiments, and what's really happening in modern China. The result is a handbook designed to serve as a discussion point, with Europe's leading China expert providing a hard-hitting assessment of where the nation has been and where it's heading, and why.
— Midwest Book Review
A very thoughtful, witty, enjoyable, intellectually stimulating, and easy-to-read overview of today’s China.
— Marc Lanteigne, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
This is a great synthesis and brilliant analysis of Chinese politics that includes a very provocative prospective section.
— Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Hong Kong Baptist University
Sometimes there are decisive turning points in nations’ histories. In this incisive and insightful volume François Godement, Europe's leading China expert, focuses on the short three-year period when China began to display a harder edge internally and externally. His analysis illuminates this ‘new normal’ and offers sobering prospects for the remainder of the Xi Jinping era.
— David Shambaugh, George Washington University
Godemont is a wise China specialist with historical perspective. He analyzes how Xi Jinping, a powerful leader, is using his nation’s leverage to lead a nation with strong global interests, no allies, and a huge economy with slowing growth.
— Ezra Vogel, emeritus, Harvard University