#  Szonyi, Michael - The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power 

 





January 01, 2018

 

 

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###  Edited by [Jennifer Rudolph](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/results-list.php?author=22229) & [Michael Szonyi](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/results-list.php?author=20928). Harvard University Press, 2018. [Publisher's Link](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979406&content=toc)

 About the book:  
Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked.

 In only a few decades, the most populous country on Earth has moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of the renowned [Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University](http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/)—answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and their leaders tick. They distill a lifetime of cutting-edge scholarship into short, accessible essays about Chinese identity, culture, environment, society, history, or policy.

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  **[Michael Szonyi](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/michael-szonyi)** Professor of Chinese History  
Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Michael Szonyi is a social historian of late imperial and modern China. His research focuses on the local history of southeast China. His research focuses on the local history of southeast China, from the Ming dynasty to the twenty-first century, using a combination of traditional textual sources and ethnographic-style fieldwork. His books include *The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China* (Princeton, 2017); *A Companion to Chinese History* (Wiley, 2017); *Practicing Kinship*(Stanford, 2002) and *Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line* (Cambridge, 2008; Chinese edition National Taiwan University Press 2016). He is also co-editor, with Jennifer Rudolph, of *The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power* (Harvard, 2017), a work celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the Fairbank Center. . [Read more...](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/michael-szonyi) 

 





 

 

 



 

 

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