For more than one hundred years, China’s political and intellectual elite have conscientiously rejected some historical political and legal principles and practices while striving to amass economic strength and recov...For more than one hundred years, China’s political and intellectual elite have conscientiously rejected some historical political and legal principles and practices while striving to amass economic strength and recover their pride and political independence. In the process of this quest for power and independence, many Chinese and foreign China specialists alike have failed to ask and answer the question: 'What made China the world’s most展开更多
文摘For more than one hundred years, China’s political and intellectual elite have conscientiously rejected some historical political and legal principles and practices while striving to amass economic strength and recover their pride and political independence. In the process of this quest for power and independence, many Chinese and foreign China specialists alike have failed to ask and answer the question: 'What made China the world’s most