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Using the past to speculate on China's future

The title of this work is somewhat deceptive for it's only really in the last couple of chapters that we get into the meat of China going "into its second rise". The bulk of the book is a political, economic and ideological history of the nation.

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Using the past to speculate on China's future

by James C. Hsiung

World Scientific

 

Amy Russell

The title of this work is somewhat deceptive for it's only really in the last couple of chapters that we get into the meat of China going "into its second rise". The bulk of the book is a political, economic and ideological history of the nation.

James Hsiung's premise is that in order to understand China's current rise, we must first understand its first (713-1820) and its subsequent decline. But there is rather too much of this, and while common tropes are further trodden, nothing all that new is said until the end.

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