The China Reader: Rising Power 6th Edition David Shambaugh

I. Viewing China’s Rise: Alternative Perspectives

The Eight Differences That Define China

China’s “Peaceful Rise” to Great-Power Status

China’s Unpeaceful Rise

The Illusion of Chinese Power

Politics

Editorial Introduction

I. Elite Politics

Elite Politics: The Struggle for Normality

II. Dissent

Charter ’08

For Freedom, Justice, and Love: My Closing Statement to the Court

III. Ideology

Achieving New Victory for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

Ideology in China: Confucius Makes a Comeback—You Can’t Keep a Good Sage Down

Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere

IV. The Future of the CCP

Making Party Building More Scientific in All Respects

Speech on the 65th Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress [Excerpts]

Is CCP Rule Fragile or Resilient?

Economic Development

Editorial Introduction

I. Building an Economic Superpower

China: Economy—Overview

Economic Growth From High-Speed to High-Quality

Accelerating the Improvement of the Socialist Market Economy and the Change of the Growth Model

II. State Capacity and Governance

China’s Governance Crisis

III. Going Global

China and the Global Economy

Are China’s Multinational Corporations Really Multinational?

Resources and Environment

Editorial Introduction

I. Environment and Climate Change

China’s Environmental Crisis

China’s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change

II. Energy Challenges

China’s Search for a New Energy Strategy

Society

Editorial Introduction

I. Rich and Poor

China’s Post-Socialist Inequality

II. Demography and Gender

China’s Population Destiny: The Looming Crisis

Gender Equality and Women’s Development in China

III. Nationalism and Identity

The Many Facets of Chinese Nationalism

IV. Religion

The Upsurge of Religion in China

V. Youth

Angry Youth

VI. Urban and Rural

Driven to Protest: China’s Rural Unrest

Building the (China) Dream

VII. Ethnic Tensions

The Roots of China’s Ethnic Conflicts

Law, Rights, and Civil Society

Editorial Introduction

I. Progress and Limits in the Rule of Law

The Rule of Law: Pushing the Limits of Party Rule

II. Corruption and Crime

Fighting Corruption: A Difficult Challenge for Chinese Leaders

Murder Mysteries

III. Human Rights

World Human Rights Report 2014: China

IV. Civil Society

Chinese Civil Society: Beneath the Glacier

Citizen Contention and Campus Calm: The Paradox of Chinese Civil Society

Media and Culture

Editorial Introduction

I. The Mainstream Media

Civil Society and Media in China

Media Censorship in China

II. The Internet and Social Media

China’s Internet: A Giant Cage

III. The Intelligentsia

China’s Beleaguered Intellectuals

IV. Soft Power

Developing a Strong Socialist Culture in China

China’s Soft Power Deficit

The Military and Security

Editorial Introduction

I. China’s Security Calculus

Work Together to Maintain World Peace and Security

II. Modernizing the Military

Modernizing China’s Military, 1997–2012

III. The Internal Security State

China Rethinks Unrest

China’s Security State: The Truncheon Budget

IV. Global Security

China’s Roles in Global Security

Foreign Relations

Editorial Introduction

I. China Views the World

China’s Search for a Grand Strategy: A Rising Great Power Finds Its Way

Coping with a Conflicted China

II. The Asian Neighborhood

China’s Role in Asia: Attractive or Assertive?

Fruitful Results and Broad Prospects: A Review of Twenty Years of China-ASEAN Relations

China and Central Asia

III. The United States and China

The China-US Relationship Goes Global

Agenda for a New Great Power Relationship

IV. Russia and Europe

Russia and China: The Ambivalent Embrace

China and Europe: Opportunities or Dangers?

V. The Global South

China and the Developing World

China’s Africa Strategy

Assessing China’s Impact in Latin America

The BRICS and China’s Aspiration for the New “International Order”

VI. Global Governance

Whither China: From Membership to Responsibility?

China and the United Nations: The Stakeholder Spectrum

“Greater” China

Editorial Introduction

I. Hong Kong and Taiwan

Enriching the Practice of “One Country, Two Systems” and Advancing China’s Reunification

Political City: Democracy in Hong Kong

China and Taiwan

China Faces the Future

Editorial Introduction: Whither China?

I. Muddle Through, Adaptation, or the End of Dynasty?

Peaceful Development and the Chinese Dream of National Rejuvenation

Unruly Stability: Why China’s Regime Has Staying Power

A Rising China Needs a New National Story

China at the Tipping Point? Foreseeing the Unforeseeable

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