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How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression
Viking
February 2007
On Sale: February 15, 2007
144 pages
ISBN: 0670038253
EAN: 9780670038251
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From The New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the
Vulcans, an exploration of Chinese authoritarianism and
Western capitalism In The China Fantasy, bestselling author James Mann examines
the evolution of American policy toward China and asks, Does
it make sense? What are our ideas and hidden assumptions
about China? In this vigorous look at China’s political
evolution and its future, Mann explores two scenarios
popular among the policy elite. The Soothing Scenario
contends that the successful spread of capitalism will
gradually bring about a development of democratic
institutions, free elections, independent judiciary, and a
progressive human rights policy. In the Upheaval Scenario,
the contradictions in Chinese society between rich and poor,
between cities and the countryside, and between the openness
of the economy and the unyielding Leninist system will
eventually lead to a revolution, chaos, or collapse. Against this backdrop, Mann poses a third scenario and asks,
What will happen if Chinese capitalism continues to evolve
and expand but the government fails to liberalize? What then
and why should this third scenario matter to Americans? Mann
explores this alternate possibility and—in this must-read
book for anyone interested in international politics—offers
a startling vision of our future with China that will have a
profound impact for decades to come.
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