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  • Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
  • Written by: Elizabeth C. Economy
  • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
  • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi himself; the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese political, social, and economic life; and the construction of a virtual wall of regulations to control more closely the exchange of ideas and capital between China and the outside world.

Beyond its borders, Beijing has recast itself as a great power, seeking to reclaim its past glory and to create a system of international norms that better serves its more ambitious geostrategic objectives. In so doing, the Chinese leadership is reversing the trends toward greater political and economic opening, as well as the low-profile foreign policy, that had been put in motion by Deng Xiaoping's "Second Revolution" 30 years earlier.
©2018 Elizabeth Economy (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Political Science International Relations Politics & Government Modern China
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Good information, poor performance

The narrator sounds as though she's reading a news report that never ends. The pronunciation of names in Chinese needs to be more accurate, as it is especially jarring to hear mispronounced names when you understand Chinese. This is not a problem for the short passages in Chinese as I wouldn't expect a narrator to be fully accurate, but names are short and important so getting them right should be a priority.

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Uninteresting and biased

By far the least interesting book on China that I've listened to or read yet. The author primarily focuses on issues and critiques of China that generally only appeal to the progressive ruling classes of Western democracies. Not falling into that category I found many of the authors arguments and critiques biased and falling flat. the author is a CFR fellow and the subject to the group think so typical of that milieu, and it very much shows.

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