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May 2008
On Sale: April 28, 2008
176 pages ISBN: 1586484842 EAN: 9781586484842 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
We know everything and nothing about China. We know that
China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to
be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought
300 million people from agricultural backwardness into
modernity in just thirty years, and that its impact on the
global economy is growing at unprecedented speed. We have
an image of China as a dictatorship; a nationalist empire
that threatens its neighbors and global peace. But how many people know about the debates raging within
China? What do we really know about the kind of society
China wants to become? What ideas are motivating its
citizens? We can name America's neo-cons and the religious
right, but cannot name Chinese writers, thinkers, or
journalists—what is the future they dream of for their
country, or for the world? Because China's rise— like the
fall of Rome or the British Raj—will echo down generations
to come, these are the questions we increasingly need to
ask. Mark Leonard asks us to forget everything we thought
we knew about China and start again. He introduces us to
the thinkers who are shaping China's wide open future and
opens up a hidden world of intellectual debate that is
driving a new Chinese revolution and changing the face of
the world.
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