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Edited by Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, Paul J. Freelly and Sharon Strange
ISBN 9781760462802 (Print)
$45.00 (GST inclusive)
ISBN 9781760462819 (Online)
Published April 2019
China Story Yearbook: Power provides accessible analysis of the main events and trends of this year and is an essential tool for understanding China’s growing power and influence around the world.
In 2018 mainland China was, by most measures, more powerful than at any other time in its modern history and one of the most powerful countries in the world. Its economy, while facing serious challenges, including from the ongoing ‘trade war’ with the US, still ranked as the second largest in the world.
Its Belt and Road Initiative, meanwhile, continues to carve paths of influence and economic integration across several continents and, with a deft combination of policy, investment and entrepreneurship, has also turned it into a global ‘techno-power’. It aims, with a good chance of success, at becoming a global science and technology leader by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.
Power surveys the various ways in which the Party-state wields its hard, soft and sharp power, both in China and abroad. Citizens of the People’s Republic of China have long had to negotiate the state’s power and influence in their lives. Increasingly, diaspora communities and non-Chinese citizens, companies and governments around the word are learning to do the same. Some submit, some push back.
Download for free or purchase a hard copy from doi.org/10.22459/CSY.2019
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