China in the 21st Century

In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know¿ , Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower, and offer a framework for understanding China''s meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Focusing their answers through the historical legacies¿Confucian thought, Western and Japanese imperialism,the Mao era, and the massacre near Tiananmen Square¿that largely define China''s present-day trajectory, Wasserstrom and Cunningham introduce readers to the Chinese Communist Party, the building boom in Shanghai, and the environmental fall-out of rapid Chinese industrialization. They also explain unique aspects ofChinese culture such as the one-child policy, and provide insight into Chinese-American relations, a subject that has become increasingly fraught during the Trump era. As Wasserstrom and Cunningham draw parallels between China and