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24%OFFHo-Fung Hung - The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World - 9780231164191 - V9780231164191
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The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World

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Description for The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World Paperback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 264 pages, 22 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; KCL; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream of Chinese supremacy-forces that are stymieing growth throughout the global South. Hung focuses on four common misconceptions: that China could undermine orthodoxy by offering an alternative model of growth; that China is radically altering power relations between the East and the West; that China is ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Contemporary Asia in the World
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231164191
SKU
V9780231164191
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About Ho-Fung Hung
Ho-fung Hung is Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Associate Professor in Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the award-winning book Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty (Columbia, 2011).

Reviews for The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World
[An] informative study... [The China Boom] paints a convincing picture that China may not be the superpower many predicted it to be. Publishers Weekly This valuable treatise will appeal to both scholars and more casual readers with an interest in China. Library Journal Masterful. Foreign Affairs It is a fast-paced, highly readable, thoroughly provocative, and (rare for an academic book) ... Read more

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