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China modernizes : threat to the West or model for the rest? /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peerenboom, R. P. (Randall P.), 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : two opposing views of China
  • Déjà vu all over again : China and the East Asian Model
  • Taking rights seriously? : official policy and actual practice
  • Social and economic rights, law and order, women's rights, and cultural rights
  • Of rights and wrongs : why China is subject to a double standard on rights
  • Institutional reform : rule of law and good governance
  • Debating democracy
  • What if China democratizes? What if it doesn't?
  • Conclusion : modernity with modesty, the strengths and limits of the EAM.