
The Third Revolution
Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
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Jo Anna Perrin
In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi himself; the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese political, social, and economic life; and the construction of a virtual wall of regulations to control more closely the exchange of ideas and capital between China and the outside world.
Beyond its borders, Beijing has recast itself as a great power, seeking to reclaim its past glory and to create a system of international norms that better serves its more ambitious geostrategic objectives. In so doing, the Chinese leadership is reversing the trends toward greater political and economic opening, as well as the low-profile foreign policy, that had been put in motion by Deng Xiaoping's "Second Revolution" 30 years earlier.
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Lots of Good Information
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Well-researched, well-organized insights
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Good Book, unengaged Narration
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Informative but Needs More Balance
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While the book is an informative read about a changing China, the reading is at times incomprehensible. Perrin has clearly not been coached on basic Pinyin pronunciation, so some Chinese sayings or names are totally meaningless and completely mispronounced. I understand how difficult Chinese is and I would not expect the reader to master the four tones, but they at least need to have a general sense of how Pinyin consonants are pronounced (“X” is always pronounced like “SH” and not “Z”, “ZH” is pronounced similar to “J” and also not “Z”...). I am not being just a Mandarin snob about this— the reader fumbles through lists of names and slogans so much that I have given up hope of looking up these ideas in other sources. If this was my uncle reading a newspaper out loud I wouldn’t have a problem with it, but an audiobook should not waste the listener’s time with such sloppy pronunciation.
If anything this motivates me to buy the physical book!
In summary, five star book, one star reading.
Thoughtful Book, Challenging Audiobook
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Need a bilingual narrator
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Excellent Review of Xi's China
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An Excellent Overview of Contemporary China
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In terms of writing style one problem I had was the abundance of acronyms. It's hard to keep them all straight.
One perspective I would have enjoyed is a comparison with some of the political constraints imposed on US citizens, and academics in particular. In the US an academic must toe a politically correct line. It is sad that the term "politically correct" comes directly from Maoist practice. Many US academic and media thought-police are Maoist, whether they know it or not. But perhaps that's a topic for a different book.
In sum: If you have any interest in modern China and it's political system this is a worthy read.
Dry but nutritious
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Focuses on China’s relationship with US.
Touches upon Xi’s ambitions.
Fantastic listen.
Amazing Listen
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