China’s efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized by corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Party rule, Minxin Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China’s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay.


Format Inbunden Omfång 376 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2016-10-03 ISBN 9780674737297