Auteur: Susan L. Shirk

Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world’s fastest growing economy–the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras–a dramatic turn-around that alarms many West …

Thirty years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a fateful decision: to allow newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations to compete in the marketplace instead of being financed exc …

Thirty years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a fateful decision: to allow newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations to compete in the marketplace instead of being financed exc …

Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world’s fastest growing economy–the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras–a dramatic turn-around that alarms many West …

Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award For decades, China’s rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, …

Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award For decades, China’s rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, …

Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China provides a nuanced analysis of the complexities within China’s educational institutions and examines the evolution of student b …

In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform witho …

China’s transformation from a virtually closed economy to a major trading nation is an incredible success story. Since 1979 the country has changed it’s policies to promote increased foreign trade an …