1st Edition

China Briefing The Contradictions of Change

By Jay D White, William A. Joseph Copyright 1997
    348 Pages
    by Routledge

    This work provides a retrospective analysis of important events in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in the mid-1990s and a prospective look at some of the issues that will shape these areas as they each move toward decisive turning points in their distinct yet intertwined histories.

    Introduction: The Contradictions of Change, Racing Against Time: Institutional Decay and Renewal in China, China's Economic Progress: Is It Sustainable?, Gender Equality in China: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, China's Popular Culture in the 1990s, Hong Kong on the Eve of Reunification with China, Taiwan in the 1990s: Moving Ahead or Back to the Future?, The United States and China: Managing a Stormy Relationship

    Biography

    Jay D. White. William A. Joseph is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and an Associate in Research of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.