Understanding China : A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture Condition:Good The characters in each story

The characters in each story find themselves in situations that offer them a ticket to hope and change: A video camera transforms the way a resentful daughter sees her widowed mother

one of her kidnappers

" Beka requests duty in the Lower City

where owls are wise

Number of Pages: 440

Understanding China : A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture Condition:Good The characters in each storyIn this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book now revised and updated for the new century Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis ridden present and future. The death of Deng Xioaping in February 1997, revelations about Chinese influence in our election campaigns, and Chinese eagerness to acquire advanced American technology, are only some of the developments that show