Frank N Pieke

Knowing China

A Twenty-First Century Guide

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new examination of the many contradictions of contemporary China, a society at once capitalist and socialist, free and authoritarian.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781107132740
• ISBN-10: 1107132746
• Artikelnr.: 45155521

Autorenporträt

Frank Pieke studied cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and the University of California, Berkeley. After lectureships at Universiteit Leiden and the University of Oxford, he was appointed Chair Professor in Modern China Studies at Universiteit Leiden in 2010. Pieke's current research revolves around foreign migration to China and the changing role of the Chinese Communist Party. His books include The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today's China (2009) and Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: knowing China
2. Why the Communist Party will not fall from power
3. China's economy will continue to grow, but not forever
4. Freedom without universal human rights
5. From empire to nation, or why Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang will not be independent
6. Not just a Chinese century
7. Conclusion: the Communist Party and China's future
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