China's futures : PRC elites debate economics, politics, and foreign policy / Daniel C. Lynch.

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Preface : competing Chinese conceptions of the PRC's possible futures -- The pitfalls of rationalist predictioneering -- Economic growth : marching into a middle-income trap? -- The Leninist political system confronts a pluralistic, wealthy society -- The new frontier : changing communication patterns and China's transformation into a "network society" -- China's rise : irreversibly reconfiguring international relations? -- Competing with the West on the "cultural front" in international relations -- China : unstoppably rising, or perched on the edge of a crisis?

"In China's Futures, Lynch traces the varying possible national trajectories based on how China's own specialists are evaluating their country's current course, and his book is the first to assess the strengths and weaknesses of 'predictioneering' in Western social science as applied to China. It does so by examining Chinese debates in five critical issue-areas concerning China's trajectory: the economy, domestic political processes and institutions, communication and the Internet (arrival of the 'network society'), foreign policy strategy, and international soft-power (cultural) competition."--Publisher's Web site

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