China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest?

China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest? and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Randall Peerenboom addresses this question by exploring China's economy, political and legal system, and most controversially, its record on civil, political.
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Randall Peerenboom offers a controversial, first-hand account of modern China focusing on its economic, political and legal attributes within the context of the developing world. Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about China Modernizes , please sign up.

China Modernizes: Threat to the West or model for the rest?

Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Aug 20, Mike Cognato rated it it was ok Recommends it for: An interesting attempt to argue that there really is some East Asian Model of development that doesn't include what we think of as liberal democracy in the first stages, and that China is following it. Falls short on both counts, unfortunately.


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The meanspirited slaps at the West and downright disingenuous presentation of the flaws with the "Western" development model don't help, either. Still, the argument gets made enough that it's worth reading in depth, and Peerenboom does know his stuff when An interesting attempt to argue that there really is some East Asian Model of development that doesn't include what we think of as liberal democracy in the first stages, and that China is following it.

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Still, the argument gets made enough that it's worth reading in depth, and Peerenboom does know his stuff when it comes to the Chinese legal system. Sep 25, Suvi rated it liked it Shelves: Heather rated it liked it Oct 08, Jeanne rated it liked it Mar 23, Ina Cawl rated it really liked it Dec 10, Mark McGuire rated it it was amazing May 18, Shaban rated it liked it Aug 09, Vincent Brown rated it liked it Dec 10, Xin Liang rated it it was amazing May 06, Anthony rated it liked it Mar 18, W Peter Bolan rated it liked it Jan 05, Phillip rated it really liked it Jan 16, Ilze rated it really liked it Nov 16, Kevin marked it as to-read Nov 20, Ahmed Abdelhamid added it Oct 16, Soaring Leaves marked it as to-read Nov 10, Asmaa marked it as to-read Jan 12, Menna marked it as to-read Jan 14, Daniel added it Jan 30, Tarek marked it as to-read May 01, Maha El Meseery added it Oct 25, Mai marked it as to-read Nov 19, Mohamed marked it as to-read Nov 19, Yacine Bougherara is currently reading it Nov 22, National University of Singapore.

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