Starr, John Bryan. <br/><br/>
Understanding China :  a guide to China's economy, history, and political structure = [Liao jie Zhongguo] / 
 Liao jie Zhongguo 
John Bryan Starr. 
 - Rev. and updated ed., 1st pbk. ed. 
 - New York :  Hill and Wang,  2001. 
 - 356 p. :  maps ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Parallel title in Chinese characters. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-347) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0809094894 (alk. paper) 9780809094899 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00063429  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Geschichte 1976-1997. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Politik.<br/>Wirtschaft.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Politics and government--1976-2002.<br/>China--Economic conditions--1976-2000.<br/>China.<br/>Chine--Politique et gouvernement--1976-2002.<br/>Chine--Conditions économiques--1976-2000.<br/>Chine.<br/>China.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS779.26  / .S737 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>951.05