China Briefing
The Contradictions of Change
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. December 1996
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-1-56324-887-0 (ISBN)
Description
This work provides a retrospective analysis of important events in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in the mid-1990s and a prospective look at some of the issues that will shape these areas as they each move toward decisive turning points in their distinct yet intertwined histories.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
map, glossary, bibliography, figures, index
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56324-887-0 (9781563248870)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
12/1996
1st Edition
M.E. Sharpe
€67.11
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Persons
Jay D. White. William A. Joseph is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and an Associate in Research of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.
Content
Introduction: The Contradictions of Change, Racing Against Time: Institutional Decay and Renewal in China, China's Economic Progress: Is It Sustainable?, Gender Equality in China: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, China's Popular Culture in the 1990s, Hong Kong on the Eve of Reunification with China, Taiwan in the 1990s: Moving Ahead or Back to the Future? The United States and China: Managing a Stormy Relationship, Chronology, Glossary.