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    End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise
    End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise
    End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise
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    End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise

    Written by Carl Minzner

    Narrated by David Colacci

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    China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling.

    Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party political system, even as a decades-long boom has reshaped China's economy and society. On the surface, their efforts have been a success. Political turmoil has toppled former Communist East bloc regimes, internal unrest overtaken Middle East nations, and populist movements risen to challenge established Western democracies. China, in contrast, has appeared a relative haven of stability and growth.

    But as Carl Minzner shows, a closer look at China's reform era reveals a different truth. Over the past three decades, a frozen political system has fueled both the rise of entrenched interests within the Communist Party itself, and the systematic underdevelopment of institutions of governance among state and society at large. Economic cleavages have widened. Social unrest has worsened. Ideological polarization has deepened.

    Now, to address these looming problems, China's leaders are progressively cannibalizing institutional norms and practices that have formed the bedrock of the regime's stability in the reform era.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9781541446946
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    • 4/5
      It casts some light on the worrying perspective of an unlimited Chinese Communist Party after Trump.
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      As the US smolders through the worse public health crisis in a century and seems completely incapable of doing anything about it, the chinese are building hospitals in week and having pool parties. We live in a authoritarian state as well but ours doesnt even do anything to help people