The China Reader: The Reform Era

A comprehensive non-fiction anthology, *The China Reader: The Reform Era* compiles essential documents, articles, and statements offering deep insights into China's profound transformation from 1972 onwards. Perhaps no nation in recent history has undergone as total a transformation as China has in the past twenty-five years. For Chinese leaders, the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of Deng Xiaoping, and unprecedented economic growth have spawned new complexities. For the country's 1.3 billion citizens, changes have been equally dramatic, from skyrocketing sales in automobiles and satellite dishes to an explosion in violent crime and drug trafficking. This fascinating compilation by two astute China watchers, Orville Schell and David Shambaugh, features the most important documents, articles, and statements on China during this pivotal period. Here are the voices of experts, from Chinese analyses of the fall of Soviet Communism to Western exposés of an ecological crisis that threatens global weather patterns into the next millennium. Here, too, are the artifacts of an era, from regulations to control Chinese cyberspace to a Party member's Orwellian justification of the military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Authoritative and comprehensive, *The China Reader* is a timely guide to understanding a nation in the throes of change—a historic moment with profound implications for policymakers and markets from the Pacific Rim to Wall Street. Bound in paperback, this volume is in Very Good condition.

• Author: Schell, Orville; Shambaugh, David
• Publisher: Vintage
• Year: 1998
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• ISBN: 9780679763871