Frontmatter -- Advance Praise for The China Paradox, Second Edition -- Advance Praise for The China Paradox, First … China -- Chapter 2 Early Attempts at Industrialization: The Empire and the Republic -- Chapter 3 The First Decades of the … Heart of China’s Emergence -- Chapter 10 China’s Friction with the World -- Chapter 11 What Could Disrupt or Sustain the …

"China's transformation from a poor and underdeveloped country into a global market power has profoundly altered its … socioeconomic power relations with the other countries in the Greater China region, namely, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Indeed, this … economic shift has resulted in the massive flow of capital and people from Taiwan as well as Hong Kong to China, to seek …

Stability, development and unity in contemporary China -- Critical developments in Chinese politics -- Privatisation … -- Uneven economic development -- China's environmental problems -- Population change and food security in China -- Ethnic … minorities -- Critical social issues -- Cross strait relations and China's reunification prospects …