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Despite the significant progress it has achieved, China faces daunting challenges today. These challenges include a rigid political system, uneven economic growth, a graying population, environmental degradation, ethnic tensions, potential social instability, and a poor international image, among others. This book aims to make a significant contribution to the understanding of key challenges China faces today as it strives to become a global power. Contributed by scholars and experts in political science, international relations, economics, public administration, history, mass communication, psychology, and diplomacy, the book focuses on the efforts needed by China to grow in a sustainable manner and become a respected global power. remove Sample Chapter(s)

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• List of Abbreviations(p. ix)
• Notes on the Editor and Contributors(p. xiii)
• Foreword Delving Into the Challenges Confronting China(p. xxi)
• Introduction The People's Republic of China Today(p. 1)
• Part I Political Changes and Democratization(p. 25)
• Chapter 1 China's Leadership Succession and Change(p. 27)
• Chapter 2 A Tragic Miscarriage: How China's Quest for Political Reform is Undercut by the China Model(p. 45)
• Chapter 3 Concluding the Complex Learning Process: The Chinese Elites' Acceptance of Outward-Oriented Development(p. 71)
• Chapter 4 Political Accountability in Governance: An Informative Appraisal of China's Political Change(p. 99)
• Chapter 5 Liberalism and Its Impact on China's Reform(p. 125)
• Part II Economic and Social Challenges(p. 153)
• Chapter 6 China's Demographic Dividends: Past Gains and Future Pains(p. 155)
• Chapter 7 Smashing the Iron Rice Bowls: Severing Ties Between the Chinese State and Socialist Workers(p. 179)
• Chapter 8 Developing a PAYGO Social Security System in China: Retrospect and Prospect(p. 199)
• Chapter 9 An Unprecedented Challenge: Can the Internet be Successfully Controlled?(p. 213)
• Chapter 10 Spiritual Beliefs and Ethnic Relations in China: A Cross-Cultural and Social Psychological Perspective(p. 239)
• Chapter 11 Tourism, Modernization, and Nation-Building: The Case of the Yangzi Delta(p. 259)
• Part III Challenges in Foreign, Security, and Military Policies(p. 289)
• Chapter 12 China's Public Diplomacy in a New Era(p. 291)
• Chapter 13 Foreign Publicity with Weak Political Credibility: A Case Study of Beijing's Foreign Publicity Over the Tibet Riots(p. 311)
• Chapter 14 China's Search for Energy and Climate Security in an Interdependent World(p. 331)
• Chapter 15 The Coming of a Prosperous China with Strong Military Power(p. 357)
• Chapter 16 Extended Horizon: China's Blue-Water Navy Ambition and Its Implications(p. 385)
• Chapter 17 Alternative Perspectives on US-China Relations(p. 405)
• Conclusion: Whither China in the 21st Century?(p. 429)
• Index(p. 441)