MCLC: China vs Western Perspectives--new book

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China vs Western Perspectives: Understanding Contemporary China
By Jinghao Zhou
Lexington Books, 2013

Overview:

China is on the rise in the globalized world. The relationship between
China and the United States has become the most important global issue in
the twenty-first century. It is urgent to understand what is happening in
China and where China is heading. However, there are many misconceptions
about China in the West, which affect Westerners’ ability to objectively
understand China, and, ultimately influence the making of foreign policy
toward China. The author attempts to challenge the misconceptions coming
from both Western societies and China, and offer an integrated picture of
contemporary China through systematically examining the major aspects of
contemporary Chinese society and culture with the most recent data, and
presents convincing arguments in eighteen chapters for spurring mutual
understanding between China and the West. The author intends this book to
be an interdisciplinary and comprehensive guide to China for a general
audience, and it covers a wide variety of topics, including history,
family, population, Chinese women, economy, environmental issues,
politics, religion, media, U.S.-China relations, and other subjects. This
book demonstrates the author’s extensive research and thoughtful
examination of many sides of controversial issues related to China with a
nice balance of Western and Chinese scholarship. This is one of the few
that are authored by scholars who originate from China and have their
professional career in the United States, but it is distinctive from the
rest of studies on this subject in that the author is committed to
examining today’s China from Chinese as well as Western perspectives. This
is not only a scholarly book, but also is suitable for general classes on
China.

Table of Contents

Preface 
Acknowledgments 
1. Roots of Contemporary China
2. Chinese Family 
3. Population and Development
4. Status of Chinese Women
5. Globalization and Chinese Women
6. Chinese Economy 
7. China’ Rise and Environmental Degradation
8. Chinese Political System
9. Rampant Corruption and Chinese Political System
10. Traditional Chinese Religions
11. Chinese Christianity in the Post-Mao Era
12. Will Confucianism Be Able to Help China’s Democratization?
13. Marxism and Maoism
14. Media in China: Internet and Chinese Cinema
15. U.S.-China Relations
16. Does China’s Rise Threaten the United States?
17. Finding Common Ground for Chinese and Western Perspectives
18. Future of China: Undemocratic China Cannot Rule the World
Bibliography 
Index 
About the Author
 

Product Details
* ISBN-13: 9780739180457
* Publisher: Lexington Books
* Publication date: 11/15/2013
* Pages: 312