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Bezig met laden... Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Centurydoor Orville Schell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Vignettes of a selection of 19 and 20C men (and one woman) who have transformed China in its search for global respect (and wealth and power, of course...which it seems to be how China thinks it will gain global respect). All the usual suspects are here -- Mao, Jiang Zemin, Chiang Kaishek, Sun Yatsen but with some surprise personalities and interesting details. Must be first rate, definitive study/overview of China's coming back onto the world stage and the challenges that lie in that for the people of China as well as all the people of the world. The consensus model versus the authoritatian model. Just listened to an outstanding, open hearted prestetation of Schell to the Commonwealth Club, March 21, 2014. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Through a series of ... portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today's foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country's rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage to burst forth onto the world stage with such an impressive run of hyperdevelopment and wealth creation--culminating in the extraordinary dynamism of China today?"--Dust jacket flap. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)951.050922History and Geography Asia China and region History 1949- (People's Republic, 20th century)LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Some of the most respected writers throughout this period argued that it is in the best interests of the people of China, once it had become wealthy and powerful, as it is today, to become democratic. Several of these brave voices died in prison, including Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2010 but died in a Chinese prison in 2017.
This book is easy to read. The reader may sympathize with the millions of suffering Chinese over this interesting* period and the 1.4 billion of today, except for the near-Orwellian** faux-Communist entrenched wealthy cabal currently hoarding power to the detriment of the country and thus of 18% of mankind.
* An old Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.
** www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/china-surveillance-state-uighurs.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region ( )