Based on his experience as a scholar and diplomat stationed in
China, Jean-Luc Domenach consults a wealth of archival and
contemporary materials to examine China's place in the world. A
sympathetic yet critical observer, Domenach brings his intimate
knowledge of the country to bear on a range of crucial issues, such
as the growth (or deterioration) of China's economy, the
government's ever-delayed democratization, the potential outcomes
of a national political crisis, and the possible escalation of a
revamped authoritarianism.
Domenach ultimately reads China's current progress as a set of
easy accomplishments presaging a more difficult era of development.
His finely nuanced analysis captures the difficult decisions now
confronting China's elite, who are under tremendous pressure to
support an economy based on innovation and consumption, establish a
political system based on law and popular participation, rethink
their national identity and spatial organization, and define a more
positive approach to the world's problems. These leaders are also
besieged by corruption among their ranks, an increasingly restless
urban population, and a sharp decline in the country's demographic
growth. Domenach taps into these anxieties and the attempt to
alleviate them, revealing a China much less confident and secure
than many would believe.
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