China Briefing: 1991

Covering an 18-month span, this latest edition of "China Briefing" assesses the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen tragedy and its continuing impact on China's domestic and foreign policies. The book opens with an exploration of the legitimacy crisis currently engulfing the Chinese Communist state. A review of the Chinese ecomomy concludes that although it is healthier in 1991 than in 1990, the post-Tiananmen political environment does not augur well - in the long run - for economic reform. The chapter on U.S.-Chinese relations demonstrates that the specter of Tiananmen still haunts the debate over policy on both sides of the Pacific. Other chapters consider the Chinese military, the media, and population policy in this nation of more than one billion people a concluding chapter by Edwin A. Winckler discusses Taiwan and shows how the island's progress since 1989 has highlighted problems on the mainland.