China modernizes threat to the West or model for the rest?
Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today; one of a rising superpower, and the other of an anachronistic, authoritarian regime. So which is the real China? Randall Peerenboom offers a controversial, first-hand account of modern China focusing on its economic, political and legal attributes...
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Oxford ; New York
Oxford University Press
2007
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| 300 | |a xv, 406 p. |b ill. |c 24 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |a 1. Introduction : two opposing views of China -- 2. Déjà vu all over again : China and the East Asian Model -- 3. Taking rights seriously? : official policy and actual practice -- 4. Social and economic rights, law and order, women's rights, and cultural rights -- 5. Of rights and wrongs : why China is subject to a double standard on rights -- 6. Institutional reform : rule of law and good governance -- 7. Debating democracy -- 8. What if China democratizes? What if it doesn't? -- 9. Conclusion : modernity with modesty, the strengths and limits of the EAM. |
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