The People's Republic of China today : internal and external challenges / Zhiqun Zhu, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : delving into the challenges confronting China / David M. Lampton -- Introduction : the People's Republic of China today / Zhiqun Zhu -- China's leadership succession and change / Weixing Chen -- A tragic miscarriage : how China's quest for political reform is undercut by the China model / Yawei Liu -- Concluding the complex learning process : the Chinese elites' acceptance of outward-oriented development / Lawrence C. Reardon -- Political accountability in governance : an informative appraisal of China's political change / Yuchao Zhu -- Liberalism and its impact on China's reform / He Li -- China's demographic dividends : past gains and future pains / Ding Lu -- Smashing the iron rice bowls : severing ties between the Chinese state and socialist workers / Jin Zeng -- Developing a PAYGO social security system in China : retrospect and prospect / Lin Ye -- An unprecedented challenge : can the Internet be successfully controlled? / Junhao Hong -- Spiritual beliefs and ethnic relations in China : a cross-cultural and social psychological perspective / Yueh-Ting Lee and Hong Li -- Tourism, modernization, and nation-building : the case of the Yangzi delta / Cecilia L.F. Chien -- China's public diplomacy in a new era / Zhaoying Han -- Foreign publicity with weak political credibility : a case study of Beijing's foreign publicity over the Tibet riots / Sheng Ding -- China's search for energy and climate security in an interdependent world / Jean Garrison -- The coming of a prosperous China with strong military power / David Lai -- Extended horizon : China's blue-water navy ambition and its implications / Qiang Xin -- Alternative perspectives on US-China relations / Eric Hyer -- Whither China in the 21st century? / Zhiqun Zhu.

"Despite the significant progress it had achieved in the past 60 years, especially in the past 30 years since Deng Xiaoping's reform initiatives in the late 1970s, China faces daunting challenges today. These challenges include, among others, a rigid political system that does not match economic vibrancy, uneven economic growth and widening income gap, a graying population, environmental degradation, potential social instability, ethnic tensions and separatist movement, poor international image, and military modernization. Based on papers originally presented at an international conference held at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC), this book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative assessment of the PRC's political, economic, social, ethnic, energy, security, military, diplomatic and other developments and challenges today. Contributed by scholars and experts in political science, international relations, economics, public administration, history, mass communication, psychology, and diplomacy, the book focuses on the efforts needed by China to grow in a sustainable manner and to become a respected global power. With each chapter addressing a different and yet an inter-related issue of the PRC's development, this book aims to make a significant contribution to the understanding of key challenges the country faces today as it strives to become a global power"--Provided by publisher.

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