49 myths about China
By: Marte Kjær Galtung and Stig Stenslie ; foreword by Andrew J. Nathan
Contributors: Stenslie, Stig, author
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781442236226
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Miscellanea
Other titles: Forty-nine myths about China
Work titles: 49 myter om Kina
Notes: Translation from the Norwegian of: 49 myter om Kina.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The party; title: Myth 1: Communism is dead in China; title: Myth 2: China is centrally controlled; title: Myth 3: The leadership is deeply divided; title: Myth 4: The Communist Party is a monolith; title: Myth 5: The military is gaining political influence; title: Myth 6: The Communist regime lacks legitimacy; title: Myth 7: The Falun Gong is an apolitical movement that is persecuted for its religious beliefs; title: Myth 8: Chinese media is just a mouthpiece of the Communist Party; title: Part II. The people; title: Myth 9: Chinese culture is incompatible with democracy; title: Myth 10: Chinese have no manners; title: Myth 11: Chinese people are not altruistic; title: Myth 12: The individual has no value, only the collective does; title: Myth 13: All Chinese are only children; title: Myth 14: The Chinese people are homogeneous; title: Myth 15: Communism has created gender equality in China; title: Myth 16: The Chinese are atheists; title: Myth 17: Shanghai is more liberal than Beijing; title: Part III. Business and the economy; title: Myth 18: "China Inc." is buying up the world; title: Myth 19: China has the United States over a barrel; title: Myth 20: China's economy is export-driven; title: Myth 21: Chinese people are born moneymakers; title: Myth 22: The Chinese don't take risks; title: Myth 23: The Chinese are just copycats; title: Myth 24: The state hinders economic development in China; title: Myth 25: Unequal distribution of wealth is a source of social and political unrest; title: Myth 26: All economic development is happening in the big cities on China's east coast; title: Part IV. China and the world; title: Myth 27: The Chinese are racist; title: Myth 28: The Communist Party is kindling nationalism; title: Myth 29: China will once again dominate East Asia; title: Myth 30: China is colonizing Africa; title: Myth 31: China is an environmental baddie; title: Myth 32: The Chinese could tame North Korea...if they wanted to; title: Myth 33: China does not interfere in other states' internal affairs; title: Part V. The past; title: Myth 34: China's history spans five millennia; title: Myth 35: China is called the "Middle Kingdom" because Chinese people believe their country is the center of the world; title: Myth 36: China discovered the world in 1421; title: Myth 37: All women were oppressed in ancient China; title: Myth 38: China has no warrior culture; title: Myth 39: Chinese history goes in circles; title: Myth 40: Tibet was a "Shangri-La" until the Chinese came; title: Myth 41: Mao was a monster; title: Myth 42: The Chinese do not care about their own historical heritage; title: Part VI. The future; title: Myth 43: The Internet will topple the Communist Party; title: Myth 44: The end of the Communist regime is near; title: Myth 45: The Chinese are masters of long-term thinking; title: Myth 46: The RMB will eclipse the dollar as the world's reserve currency; title: Myth 47: China is a military threat; title: Myth 48: Chinese will replace English as the world's language; title: Myth 49: The twenty-first century belongs to China.