China modernizes [[electronic resource] ] : threat to the West or model for the rest? / / Randall Peerenboom
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Peerenboom R. P (Randall P.), <1958->
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| Titolo: |
China modernizes [[electronic resource] ] : threat to the West or model for the rest? / / Randall Peerenboom
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (423 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human rights - China |
| Democracy - China | |
| Globalization - China | |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Politics and government 2002- |
| China Economic conditions 2000- | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-393) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: two opposing views of China; 2. Déjà vu all over again: China and the East Asian Model; 3. Taking rights seriously? Official policy and actual practice; 4. Social and economic rights, law and order, women's rights, and cultural rights; 5. Of rights and wrongs: why China is subject to a double standard on rights; 6. Institutional reform: rule of law and good governance; 7. Debating democracy; 8. What if China democratizes? What if it doesn't?; 9. Conclusion: modernity with modesty. The strengths and limits of the EAM; Endnotes; References; Index; A; B |
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| Sommario/riassunto: | Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today; one of a rising superpower, and the other of an anachronistic, authoritarian regime. So which is the real China? Randall Peerenboom offers a controversial, first-hand account of modern China focusing on its economic, political and legal attributes within the context of the developing world. - ;Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today. On the one hand a rising superpower predicted to have the largest economy in the world by mid century, on the other hand a brutal, anachronistic and authoritarian regime, a threat to geo-stability and |
| Titolo autorizzato: | China modernizes |
| ISBN: | 1-281-14913-6 |
| 9786611149130 | |
| 0-19-151413-6 | |
| 1-4294-7051-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827703803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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