Understanding China Author:John Bryan Starr Subheading: a guide to China's economy, history, and political structure — Ever since Deng Xiaoping initiated a sweeping programme of reforms to make China more open to the outside world, the West has heard a mass of conflicting reports as to "what is really going on." Politically and economically,... more » China is a country that cannot be ignored but governments and business are still unsure of the country and people they are dealing with.
John Bryan Starr has thoroughly researched the changes in China's politics, military history, society, culture and human rights policy and has produced one of the most comprehensive studies on the country. He looks at the challenges it is facing at present, how its relationship with Taiwan is likely to proceed and analyses how China's political and economic systems are likely to evolve in the twenty-first century.« less