Becoming China:

Includes index.

Weaving together the inspirations, ideas, wars and dreams that have shaped the way Chinas people have thought about order from the ancient past to the recent present, Gescher reveals a story of China as an epic and continuing battle about order that strikes at the heart of what it means to be Chinese. With the past in perspective, the clashes between Chinas people and the Party come to life as never before—and the importance of Chinas question becomes clear for everything, including economics. In a thought provoking conclusion, Gescher invites readers to make their own, informed, views about how order might be found in China—and then to take one step further and apply Chinas question to the wider world.