@article{858441, note = {Includes index.}, author = {Rudolph, Jennifer M., and Szonyi, Michael,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/858441}, title = {The China questions : critical insights into a rising power /}, abstract = {Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked. In only a few decades, the most populous country on Earth has moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty of the world's leading China experts--all affiliates of the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University--answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and their leaders tick. They distill a lifetime of cutting-edge scholarship into short, accessible essays about Chinese identity, culture, environment, society, history, or policy.--}, recid = {858441}, pages = {1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) :}, }