Full name: Understanding China: A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

Author: John Bryan Starr Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Politics Cultures: China, Asia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780809016518 0809016516

In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future. The death of Deng Xioaping in February 1997, revelations about Chinese influence in our election campaigns, and Chinese eagerness to acquire advanced American technology, are only some of the developments that show how urgently we need to know and understand China better than we do. In this revised edition of his essential book, Starr focuses his shrewd attention on them all. He furnishes additional material on China's relations with Taiwan and Tibet, the transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese rule, China's nuclear weapons program, and its environmental and human rights records. Similar books: The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Harold Isaacs China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles Tombstone by Yang Jisheng Wealth and Power by Orville Schell A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard The Dynasties of China by Bamber Gascoigne The Genius of China by Robert Temple Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan The First Emperor by Jane Portal China Wakes by Nicholas D. Kristof Twilight in the Forbidden City by Reginald F. Johnston 1587 by Ray Huang The Great Wall by John Man Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel The Tiananmen Papers by Liang Zhang Young China by Zak Dychtwald Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy Asia's Cauldron by Robert D. Kaplan Restless Empire by Odd Arne Westad Nixon and Mao by Margaret MacMillan