Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Beyond the Shadow of Tiananmen: The Role of Foreign Business in China's Uncertain Path to Democracy and Human Rights -- 2. The Clipboard, the Megaphone, and Socialist Characteristics: Pragmatic and Ideological Approaches to Solving China's...

A comprehensive introduction to the nations of Central and Eastern Europe over a half century of turbulent change - from post war subjugation by the Soviet Union to both shared and divergent experiences of post-Communist transition to free-market democracies.