On Sale: Apr 29, 2008
Page Count: 176 pages
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN-13: 9780786732036

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We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just thirty years, and that its impact on the global economy is growing at unprecedented speed. We have an image of China as a dictatorship; a nationalist empire that threatens its neighbors and global peace.

But how many people know about the debates raging within China? What do we really know about the kind of society China wants to become? What ideas are motivating its citizens? We can name America’s neo-cons and the religious right, but cannot name Chinese writers, thinkers, or journalists — what is the future they dream of for their country, or for the world? Because China’s rise — like the fall of Rome or the British Raj — will echo down generations to come, these are the questions we increasingly need to ask. Mark Leonard asks us to forget everything we thought we knew about China and start again. He introduces us to the thinkers who are shaping China’s wide open future and opens up a hidden world of intellectual debate that is driving a new Chinese revolution and changing the face of the world.

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Tucson Citizen, August 21, 2008
“[Leonard’s] excellent new book is essential reading for anyone interested in the changing global landscape of the next century.”

Mark Leonard

About the Author

Mark Leonard is Executive Director of the Open Society Institute for Europe. He is formerly Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform and the director of the Foreign Policy Centre. A regular commentator in the world’s leading newspapers and journals, he lives in London.

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