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Stumbling giant : the threats to China's future / Timothy Beardson

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  • Texte
Type de médiation
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Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Stumbling giant : the threats to China's future / Timothy Beardson
A pour autre édition sur un support différent
  • Stumbling giant the threats to China's future Timothy Beardson New Haven, Connecticut Yale University Press cop. 2013 978-0-300-16551-7
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • New Haven : Yale University press
Date de copyright
  • C 2013
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (X-517 p.) : jaquette ill. en coul., portr. ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 978-0-300-16542-5
  • 0-300-16542-0
  • 978-0-300-20532-9
  • 0-300-20532-5
EAN
  • 9780300165425 rel.
Autre variante du titre
  • [Threats to China's future.]
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 330.951
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [477]-493. Notes bibliogr. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • La jaquette contient : "While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of leadership's responses. Threats to China come from many fronts, Beardson shows, and by their number and sheer weight these problems will thwart the nation's ambition to take over as the world's "Number 1 power". Drawing on extensive research and experience living and working in Asia over the last 35 years, the author spells out the details of China's situation: an inexorable demographic future of remorseless aging, extreme gender disparity, a shrinking labour force, and even a falling population. Also, the nation faces social instability, a devastated environment, a low-tech economy with inadequate innovation, the absence of an effective welfare safety net, an ossified governance structure, and radical Islam lurking at the borders. Beardson's nuanced, first-hand look at China acknowledges its historic achievements while tempering predictions of its imminent hegemony with a no-nonsense dose of reality".
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