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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.