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Oxford University Press, USA

China Dreams: 20 Visions of the Future

China Dreams: 20 Visions of the Future

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After celebrating their country's three decades of fantastic economic success, many Chinese are now asking, What comes next? How can China convert its growing economic power into political and cultural influence around the globe?

William A. Callahan's China Dreams gives voice to China's many different futures by exploring the grand aspirations and deep anxieties of a broad group of public intellectuals. Stepping outside the narrow politics of officials vs. dissidents, Callahan examines what a third group--citizen
intellectuals--think about China's future. China Dreams eavesdrops on fascinating conversations between officials, scholars, soldiers, bloggers, novelists, film-makers and artists to see how they describe China's different political, strategic, economic, social and cultural futures. Callahan also
examines how the PRC's new generation of twenty- and thirty-somethings is creatively questioning The China Model of economic development. The personal stories of these citizen intellectuals illustrate China's zeitgeist and a complicated mix of hopes and fears about The Chinese Century, providing
a clearer sense of how the PRC's dramatic economic and cultural transitions will affect the rest of the world.

China Dreams explores the transnational connections between American and Chinese people, providing a new approach to Sino-American relations. While many assume that 21st century global politics will be a battle of Confucian China vs. the democratic west, Callahan weaves Chinese and American ideals
together to describe a new Chimerican dream.


Author: William A. Callahan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/25/2013
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.21w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780199896400

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 11/21/2013 pg. 59
Choice 12/01/2013

About the Author

William A. Callahan is Chair in International Politics and Research Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of China: The Pessoptimist Nation (Oxford University Press) and Contingent States (University of Minnesota Press).

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