PublishedHarvard University Press, September 2016 |
ISBN9780674737297 |
FormatHardcover, 316 pages |
Dimensions14cm × 21cm |
China's efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized by corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Party rule, Minxin Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China's facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay.