Isbn: 9798241211996 - inside china: power, society, and the systems that hold 1.4 billion people together (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Inside China: Power, Society, and the Systems That Hold 1.4 Billion People TogetherChina is discussed everywhere and understood almost nowhere.It is described as a rising superpower, an authoritarian state, an economic miracle, a technological threat, or a civilizational mystery, often all at once. Headlines focus on events. Arguments focus on ideology. What is usually missing is an explanation of how China actually functions as a system.This book fills that gap. Inside China is not a travelogue, a political manifesto, or a collection of anecdotes. It is a structural explanation of how China governs, organizes society, manages scale, and maintains stability across more than 1.4 billion people. Rather than asking whether China is good or bad, free or unfree, right or wrong, this book asks a more useful question: why does it work the way it does Across sixteen in-depth chapters, the book examines: - How power is exercised through systems and incentives rather than personalities- Why stability is treated as a prerequisite, not a byproduct- How history and continuity shape modern governance- Why Chinese cities, education, science, and digital life behave differently from their counterparts elsewhere- How information, nationalism, and social control function at scale- What China is building toward and what it is deliberately trying to avoid.…