China Fragile Superpower - Susan L. Shirk
- In english. First published in 2008.
Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy, a turn-around so dramatic, and with repercussions so wide-ranging, that it has dazzled, bewildered, and alarmed many westerners.
In her book Susan L. Shirk reveals that the real danger lies not in China's astonishing growth but in the deep insecurity of its leaders. The more developed and prosperous the country becomes, the more insecure and threatened they feel.
-> Very interesting book which underlined some sides of the country and associated power struggles that I did not really suspected. It keeps on surprising me that so few people can manage so large a country, showing only a single face of it to the world. But other clues were also brought to me by the book, especially about the quite tense and specific relations between Japan-Taiwan-USA and China.
Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy, a turn-around so dramatic, and with repercussions so wide-ranging, that it has dazzled, bewildered, and alarmed many westerners.
In her book Susan L. Shirk reveals that the real danger lies not in China's astonishing growth but in the deep insecurity of its leaders. The more developed and prosperous the country becomes, the more insecure and threatened they feel.
-> Very interesting book which underlined some sides of the country and associated power struggles that I did not really suspected. It keeps on surprising me that so few people can manage so large a country, showing only a single face of it to the world. But other clues were also brought to me by the book, especially about the quite tense and specific relations between Japan-Taiwan-USA and China.