Where is China heading in the twenty-first century? Recent
curtailments of liberty, such as the new "cyberwall" prohibiting
internet users from reaching pro-democracy websites, has dimmed the
hopes of many that China might be entering a new era of freedom on
the heels of rapid economic expansion and success. Will China's
Communist Party be able to balance an economy which demands liberal
reform with their own hard-line approach to government control? Or
will their new economy be their undoing, as its demands on natural
resources bring China to the brink of environmental disaster? In
this highly readable account, John Gittings sheds light on modern
Chinese history as he answers these vital questions.
Gittings, the Guardian's China specialist and East Asia editor for
twenty years, offers a fascinating glimpse into Chinese history in
the last half century. His narrative ranges from the early
Peach-Blossom socialism, to the Great Leap Forward, the two
Cultural Revolutions, the Hundred Flowers, the Gang of Four, and
the Tiananmen Square massacre. Bringing his account to the present,
Gittings concludes that environmental degradation and rising
pollution represent the most serious threats to the Chinese people
today. He points out that the nightmare scenario for China is not a
collapse of the Party or of the banks, or another uprising by the
rural masses. It is that China will run out of water.
Based on three decades reporting on China, Gittings charts a
complex but epic history of one of the world's superpowers. His
work will offer insights for readers with an interest in modern
China, and students of modern Chinese history and politics.
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