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Language: English
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 A World on Edge; What Is the Proper Context in Which toAssess China Today?; China's Self-Inflicted Crises; Great Leap Forward or Famine?; Cultural Revolution or Social Cannibalism?; How Has Economic Integration with the GlobalEconomy Changed China?; Is China Becoming the Next Superpower?; Trading Partner to the World; The World's Manufacturer; An Appetite for Commodities; Why Does China Have "Gold Fever?"; What Does the Rise of Other Nations, but Especiallyof China, Mean for the Current Financial System?; Marketing the China Brand
Does China Have a Bright and Powerful Future?What's Really behind the Great Wall?; Notes; Chapter 2 Stability and Legitimacy: A ChineseCrisis from Within; What Kinds of Risks and Problems Are Typicalof Unstable Nations?; Stability and Instability: What Are They?; The Source of China's "Stability"; What Are the Characteristics and Effects of Instability?; Does Stability also Mean "Legitimacy" in China?; Is Legitimacy of the Government Necessaryfor Stability?; Does Communist China Have a History of Stability?; Does China's Beijing Model Lead to Stabilityand Legitimacy?; Notes
Chapter 3 The Rising Tide of InstabilityHas China Been Influenced by Western Ideas?; Sources of Rising Instability in China; Notes; Chapter 4 Is China's Economy Sustainable?; The Beijing Model: The Path Forward orCannibal Capitalism?; What Is the Beijing Model?; Is the Beijing Model Self-Sustaining?; Notes; Chapter 5: China's Quiet Crisis: Financial andEconomic Meltdown; A Perception of Strength; China's Quality of GDP; A Public and Private Stimulus Time Bomb; Development versus Economic Growth; How Much Was the Money SupplyExpanded in China?; Bursting Bubbles
How Underperforming Are the Assets andthe Loans Underlying Them?China's Banks Looking for the Real Thing; Currency Manipulation and the Domestic Economy; Will the Yuan Devaluation Be Enough to Keepthe Economy Going?; Inflation and Deflation Dangers; Food for Riots; Financial Endgame; Notes; Chapter 6 China's Extreme EnvironmentalDegradation; Raging Environmental Crises; A History of Huge Mistakes; Hiding the Truth; Command Economies, Dehumanized Society,and Pollution; Pollution, Development, and Democracy; China's Lose-Lose-Lose Proposition
China's Air Pollution-Gasping For aBreath of Fresh AirBitter Water: China's Lakes, Rivers,and Streams of Poison; How Bad Is the Water Pollution Situation in China?; Cancer Villages and Insanity; Why Has China's Water Pollution Gotten So Bad?; Lifeless Oceans; A Plague Upon the Land; China's Dead Zones; The Land of Arsenic; Why Is Such Pollution Tolerated?; CCP Land Policies Promote Abuse; Losing the Breadbasket; The Deforestation and Desertification of China; What Is the Real Cause of Desertification?; Ghosts of Famines Past; Notes; Chapter 7 Political Transition and the Breaking Point
Will Xi Jinping Unify the CCP?
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ISBN: 1-118-47077-X ; 1-118-47080-X ; 978-1-118-47080-0 ; 978-1-118-47077-0
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ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW
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