From the Publisher: Modern China and the New World focuses upon a few of the main topics associated with China’s recent rise to global prominence. Dr. Randall Doyle discusses the impact that China will have on the geopolitical balance throughout the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the effect of China’s new power on U.S.-China relations in the 21st century. Dr. Zhang Boshu addresses China’s continuing struggles with Tibet and the Dalai Lama. He also discusses the existing political system within China today and the future possibility of democratic reforms occurring and transforming Chinese society itself. Modern China and the New World presents these important topics by incorporating not just traditional reading and research, but also integrating the personal experiences of the authors.Randall Doyle is currently a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. His primary focus is upon democracy, human rights and labor throughout Southeast Asia. This prestigious merit-based fellowship program was created by the U.S. State Department, in 2008, to recruit individuals with significant and successful backgrounds involving various aspects of American foreign policy. Professor Doyle taught East Asian History, Asia-Pacific History, Modern China and American Diplomatic History at Central Michigan University from 2006 to 2011. Dr. Doyle has lived, studied and/or worked in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America during his academic career.
Zhang Boshu was born in Beijing in 1955. He received an MA in economics from Zhongguo Renmin Daxue in 1982 and in 1985 passed the entrance examination for the Institute of Philosophy of the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research has been on critical theory in continental Europe in modern western philosophy. He obtained MA and PhD degrees in philosophy in 1988 and 1991. He has held a post in the Philosophy Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1991 to the present. In recent years he has striven to understand the lessons of success and failure in the history of the past century of China’s democratic transition and institutional modernization. He has gradually settled upon criticism of 20th Century Chinese despotism as his main research topic.
Table of Contents:
Part I: New Geopolitical Dynamics in East Asia and Asia-Pacific
Chapter 1: The New ‘Great Game’ Emerging in East Asia: The Coming Struggle for Regional Supremacy, by Randall Doyle
Chapter 2: The Asia-Pacific Region: ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’ in the 21st Century, by Randall Doyle
Chapter 3: The American Mandarin: Henry Kissinger and the Reemergence of China, by Randall Doyle
Part II: The Middle Kingdom and Domestic Challenges
Chapter 4: China’s Constitutional Reform: The Background, The Goal, The Procedures and The Constraints, by Zhang Boshu
Chapter 5: The Way to Resolve the Tibet Issue, by Zhang Boshu
Chapter 1: The New ‘Great Game’ Emerging in East Asia: The Coming Struggle for Regional Supremacy, by Randall Doyle
Chapter 2: The Asia-Pacific Region: ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’ in the 21st Century, by Randall Doyle
Chapter 3: The American Mandarin: Henry Kissinger and the Reemergence of China, by Randall Doyle
Part II: The Middle Kingdom and Domestic Challenges
Chapter 4: China’s Constitutional Reform: The Background, The Goal, The Procedures and The Constraints, by Zhang Boshu
Chapter 5: The Way to Resolve the Tibet Issue, by Zhang Boshu
