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China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

by WillemVanKemenade (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $7.66
Synopsis

On June 20, 1997, Hong Kong reverted to China after 99 years of British rule. This event marked the reunification of the old Chinese empire in a new world economic superpower. Since the early 1980s, investment money has been pouring into China from Hong Kong and trade has been escalating at rocket pace. A few years later, the same pattern began between China and Taiwan. The combination of Hong Kong/Taiwan management and financial know-how and China's inexhaustible pool of cheap labour has enabled China to leap from impoverished revolutionary state to major world trading power. But as China reclaims Hong Kong, it inherits a political city-state with democratic structures. Can China become the first totally post-political 'corporatist' superpower, while making itself impermeable to the 'spiritual pollution' of outside democratic values, human rights values and political freedom?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 557
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Abacus
Published: 14 Jan 1999
ISBN 10: 0349109591
ISBN 13: 9780349109596

Media Reviews
'Riveting ... should hold great interest for China watchers' PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY 'One of the most thorough, comprehensive and balanced assessments' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'His text is an invaluable map that makes it clear that the main obstacle to the new empire is the politics of the old.' NEW STATESMAN 'A peerless study... refreshingly readable introduction for the beginner.' THE TIMES 'No recent book matches CHINA, HONG KONG, TAIWAN, INC in the depth of its reporting on the rise of Greater China. While examining with a critical eye many of the formidable problems these Chinese systems confront, Willem van Kemenade maintains what is ultimately a positive and constructive outlook. At a time when America seems on the verge of a new China debate between containment doves and engagement doves , his sober and balanced perspective should help the forces of rationality.' Lucian W. Pye, Ford Professor Emeritus, M.I.T
Author Bio
Willem van Kemenade was born in the Netherlands in 1943. He studied history at Nijmegen University and Chinese studies in Taiwan and at Leiden University. Since 1977 he has been based in Peking, Jakarta, Hong Kong and Taiwan as a freelance journalist and correspondent for a major Dutch newspaper, NRC HANDELSBLAD (Dutch equivalent of WALL STREET JOURNAL).