China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition

This study demonstrates how the government of the world’s most populous nation has been significantly affected by attempts to harmonize the unique nature of its indigenous culture with a variety of influences and ideas from outside. China faces many challenges to its traditional economic, legal, social and cultural structures. This text provides students with a clear sense of how this transition is taking place, what its effects on the current leaders and policies are in 2003, and how the system might evolve in the future.