Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity, Stability and Development comprehensively examines key problems crucial to understanding modern-day China. Organized around three inter-related themes of unity, stability and development, chapters explore distinct issues (such as miliarty transformation, energy security, health and education) and debate their significance for domestic China and Beijing's engagement with the wider world. A fully revised and substantially expanded new edition, this book provides a thorough and up-to-date assessment of major political, social and economic challenges facing China. sakriti opis