China's Political System: Modernization and Tradition - Tapa blanda

This highly respected text demonstrates how the government of the world's most populous nation has been significantly affected by attempts to harmonize the unique nature of its indigenous culture with a variety of influences and ideas from outside. China faces many challenges to its traditional economic, legal, social, and cultural structures. This text provides students with a clear sense of how this transition is taking place, what its effects on the current leaders and policies are, and how the system might evolve in the future.

June Teufel Dreyer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. In addition to her research, teaching, and writing, she frequently speaks on Chinese politics and was Chief Far East Specialist for the Library of Congress, Asia Advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, and commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.