Author: Shiping Hua
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In this edited volume, leading scholars from the United States and China analyze the challenges and opportunities for China in the twenty-first century, each emphasizing particular dimensions of politics, economics, political culture, and foreign policy.Issues examined include social harmony and statecraft, markets and political reforms, media and political culture, and legality in foreign trade. ReviewThere is no story bigger than Chinas rise and its impact on the United States and the world in the twenty-first Century. With Chinas astonishing changes, both in speed and in substance, it seems hard for the China scholarship to catch up. As there is indeed a tremendous need to comprehend the complexity of Chinas development and the challenges and opportunities it presents, we should welcome this new addition to our understanding of what is going on in China. This volume provides such a timely analysis.The editors carefully selected the topics and authors and made it a rich collection, with issues ranging from Chinas policy shift to the Internet in China.--Xiaobo Hu,Professor of Political Science,Director of Clemson University Center for China StudiesThis is a very timely collection of well-written, insightful essays examining both the domestic politics and foreign policy of contemporary China. This book will be useful for any person wishing to better understand China in the twenty-first century. --Joseph Fewsmith, Boston UniversityAbout the AuthorShiping Hua is the Calvin and Helen Lang Distinguished Chair in Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. He is also Director of the Asian Studies Program at the University. He is the Vice President of SE Chapter of the Association of Asian Studies, the largest academic organization on Asian studies. Hua has published eight single-authored or edited books in English and three books in Chinese. He is currently working on a book manuscript on Chinas legislative reforms. Hua is a guest professor at Chinas Peking University, Renmin University, Jilin University, and Nankai University. He is the general editor of two book series, Asia in the New Millennium in English with the University Press of Kentucky and Contemporary Worlds Classics Political Science Series in Chinese with Renmin University Press. He sits on the editorial boards of three academic journals, Journal of Chinese Political Science, American Review of China Studies, and International Journal of China Studies.Sujian Guo is a Distinguished Professor of Fudan University, the Associate Dean of Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan University, and a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of Center for U.S.-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Political Science, Editor of Rowman & Littlefield-Lexingtons Chinese political studies series, and former President of the Association of Chinese Political Studies.He received his PhD from the University of Tennessee. His authored and edited books include Chinas Environmental Crisis Domestic and Global Political Responses and Impacts Thirty Years of China-US Relations Analytical Approaches and Contemporary Issues Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and Chinas Western Regions Greater China in an Era of Globalization China in Search of a Harmonious Society Harmonious World and Chinas New Foreign Policy Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development New Dimensions of Chinese Foreign Policy China in the Twenty-First Century Challenges and Opportunities The Political Economy of Asian Transition from Communism Chinas Peaceful Rise in the 21st Century Domestic and International Conditions and Post-Mao China From Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism.