Knowing China: A Twenty-First Century Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107587618)

Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, desires, or fears. Each chapter starts with a key question about China, showing that such questions and assumptions are often based on a misunderstanding or misconstruction of what China is today. Pieke explores twenty-first-century China as a unique kind of neo-socialist society, combining features of state socialism, neoliberal governance, capitalism and rapid globalization. Understanding this society not only helps us to know China better, but takes us beyond the old dichotomies of West versus East, developed versus developing, tradition versus modernity, democracy versus dictatorship, and capitalism versus socialism.

Author: Frank N. Pieke
ISBN-10: 1107587611
ISBN-13: 9781107587618
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2016
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.02w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2017