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

This highly respected text demonstrates how the government of China,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 the outside world.

This highly respected text demonstrates how the government of Chinahas been significantly affected by attempts to harmonize the unique nature of its indigenous culture with a variety of influences and ideas from the outside world. 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. In this revised edition Dreyer continues to challenge students to think about the larger problems of governance in China by expanding her coverage of such hot topics as the complications inherent in transitioning from a planned economy to a market economy as well as the growing differences between the rich and poor in China.