What Does China Really Think

We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be re-written every two weeks. We know that half the world's clothes and footwear have a 'Made in China' label on them. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just 30 years - something that took 200 years in Europe - and that the emergence of 1.3 billion consumers into the global economy will force us to re-write our geo-political maps. We know that China matters. But the more we learn, the less we understand. In this vital new book Mark Leonard goes behind the monolithic facade of the country's communist party and reveals from first-hand encounters what sort of society China will become in the future, what makes it tick, what ideas are motivating its citizens, what arguments are raging in its think-tanks, universities and journals. This book will ask you to forget everything you thought you knew about China - and start again.