China
September 1999

September Article Abstracts

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Title: China's Communist Revolution: A Half-Century Perspective
Author: Maurice Meisner
"As it embarks on its second half-century, the People's Republic seems fated to undergo all the vicissitudes of a capitalist regime in the age of 'globalization,' with all the economic dynamism and social disruption that capitalist development typically brings."
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Title: Jiang Zemin: On the Right Side of History?
Author: Bruce Gilley
"President Clinton lectured Jiang while visiting China in June 1998 for being on 'the wrong side of history.' . . . But China's history after Tiananmen and after Deng's death may have called for the brand of caution displayed by Jiang. This not-very-inspiring engineer may have led China, by choice and muddle, toward a more prosperous and free future."
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Title: Getting China Right
Author: Elizabeth Economy
Sino-American relations have been marked recently by conflict and controversy over Chinese espionage, WTO membership for China, and the American bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. "Although the past six months may appear to have caused irreparable damage to Sino-American relations, a longer view would argue that the current deterioration is not exceptional, but to be expected."
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Title: China's Nuclear Forces: An Assessment
Author: Paul H. B. Godwin
The United States and China have emerged from the cold war with a reciprocal fear of each other's nuclear intentions. "In this mutual perception is a classic security dilemma: defensive military programs undertaken by both sides are viewed by their counterpart as offensive and threatening. In the United States, the Cox committee's worst-case analysis of China's espionage has enhanced this perception."
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Title: China's Search for a Global Role
Author: Michael Yahuda
"China's role as a great power is at best uncertain and confused. . . . It has still not found a way to reassure neighbors or to free itself from dependence on the security and stability provided by the United States--and the resentment that creates."
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Title: Beyond the Transition: China's Economy at Century's End
Author: Edward S. Steinfeld
"China is not scrambling to dismantle socialism; it is scrambling to regulate a market system that it has--for better or worse, intentionally or inadvertently--adopted thoroughly."
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Title: An All-Consuming Nationalism
Author: Michael Dutton
"The emergence in the 1990s of a form of 'nostalgic nationalism' among former radical intellectuals. . .makes it more difficult to tell the story of the struggle between the party and the people in a simple fashion. This nationalism's arguments seem to confuse the battle for human rights and democracy in China. . . . Put simply, this new nationalism does not fit into the general categories used by Western journalists to approach news about China."
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Title: Human Rights, Repression, and "Stability"
Author: James D. Seymour
"Since the Mao era, human rights in China have improved, but they still fall far short of international standards. The rulers perpetuate their power by practicing what we might call a moderate level of repression, adhering to the old Chinese adage 'Kill a chicken to warn all the monkeys.'"
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Title: Taiwan: Finding Opportunity in Crisis
Author: Shelley Rigger
"Taiwan's many accomplishments. . .have not eliminated the Taiwanese sense of crisis and foreboding. . . . Today the danger facing Taiwan is. . .the possibility of being absorbed forcibly into the People's Republic. Any weakness, whether military, economic, social, or political, could embolden China and increase Taiwan's vulnerability."
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Title: The Question of Tibet
Author: A. Tom Grunfeld
"Ironically, the congressional hearings, the rock concerts, and the Hollywoodization of Tibet have created a greater threat to Tibetan culture inside Tibet because they have strengthened the power of the Chinese hard-liners who argue that the Dalai Lama is not to be trusted and that Westerners want to break up China."
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Title: Book Reviews
On China
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Title: Four Months in Review
An international chronology of events in April, May, June, and July, country by country, day by day.
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Title: China
A Map of China
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