Understanding China

Examines evidence of changes in China's politics, military history, society, culture and human rights policy, identifies the fundamental problems confronting China today and asks whether the Chinese political system is up to the task of resolving them.

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This is the comprehensive study on China. John Bryan Starr has thoroughly researched the changes in the country's politics, military history, society, culture and China's notoriously vicious human rights policy. He looks at the challenges the country is facing at present and analyses how it can survive as one of the few bastions of communism in the 21st century.