Understanding China : a guide to China's economy, history, and political structure = [Liao jie Zhongguo] / John Bryan Starr.

Parallel title in Chinese characters.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-347) and index.

Geographical Inequalities -- Patterns from the Past -- China's Political System: The Party-State and the Power Grid -- China's Economy: Who Owns What, Who Works Where, and Who Makes the Decisions -- The Chinese Armed Forces -- Sources of Rural Discontent -- China's Cities: Unemployment, Corruption, and Anomie -- The Centrifugal Forces of Regionalism -- Han and Non-Han: The Divisive Forces of Ethnicity -- The Challenge of Environmental Degradation -- One Billion Plus: Controlling Population Growth -- Human Rights and the Rule of Law -- Intellectual Freedom and Chinese Education -- Artistic Freedom and China's Contemporary Culture -- Hong Kong and Macao: The Special Administrative Regions -- Democratization on Taiwan: Model or Rival? -- China's Foreign Relations -- Conclusion: China in the Twenty-first Century.