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China modernizes : threat to the West or model for the rest? /

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Main Author: Peerenboom, R. P. (Randall P.), 1958-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Human rights > China.
Democracy > China.
Globalization > China.
China > Politics and government > 2002-
China > Economic conditions > 2000-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : two opposing views of China
  • Déjà vu all over again : China and the East Asian Model
  • Taking rights seriously? : official policy and actual practice
  • Social and economic rights, law and order, women's rights, and cultural rights
  • Of rights and wrongs : why China is subject to a double standard on rights
  • Institutional reform : rule of law and good governance
  • Debating democracy
  • What if China democratizes? What if it doesn't?
  • Conclusion : modernity with modesty, the strengths and limits of the EAM.