The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China

The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China

by James Mann
The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China

The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China

by James Mann

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Overview

The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans

"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country, and its success would encourage other authoritarian regimes to resist pressures to change . . . Mann’s prediction turned out to be true." -New York Review of Books, October 2017

"From Clinton to Bush to Obama, the prevailing belief was engagement with China  would make China more like the West.  Instead, as [James] Mann predicted, China has gone in the opposite direction." -The New York Times, February 2018


One of our most perceptive China experts, James Mann wrote The China Fantasy as a vital wake-up call to all who are ignorant of America's true relationship with the Asian giant. For years, our leaders posited that China could be drawn to increasing liberalization through the power of the free market, but Mann asked us to consider a very real alternative: What if China's economy continues to expand but its government remains as dismissive of democracy and human rights as it is now?

Now the results are in: the reign of Xi Jinping has proven that Mann was right. To understand how China got to its current state and why it may not be too late to turn back, The China Fantasy is essential reading. Calling for an end to the current policy of overlooking China's abuses for the sake of business opportunities, Mann presents an alternative path to a better China.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101201978
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/15/2007
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 319 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

James Mann is the senior writer in residence at the CSIS International Security Program and the author of two critically acclaimed books: About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China from Nixon to Clinton and Beijing Jeep. Previously, he was a long-time correspondent with the Los Angeles Times, and his writing has also appeared in The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Euphemizing China     ix
The Third Scenario     1
The Lexicon of Dismissal     29
The Starbucks Fallacy     49
The P-Factor     69
Let the Games Begin     89
Conclusion: Who's Integrating Whom?     101
Afterword     113
Acknowledgments     125
Notes     127
Index     135

What People are Saying About This

Gordon S. Chang

Mr. Mann has perfectly described the blend of hope and cynicism that currently underpins American policy toward China.
The New York Sun

Clay Chandler

If Americans revered veteran China correspondents the way Chinese communists revere their founding revolutionaries, former Los Angeles Times bureau chief Jim Mann would justly be hailed as an ‘immortal.' (Clay Chandler, editor, Fortune Asia)

From the Publisher

"If Americans revered veteran China correspondents the way Chinese communists revere their founding revolutionaries, former Los Angeles Times bureau chief Jim Mann would justly be hailed as an 'immortal.'"
-Clay Chandler, editor, Fortune Asia

"Mr. Mann has perfectly described the blend of hope and cynicism that currently underpins American policy toward China."
-Gordon S. Chang, The New York Sun

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