The China Record

<p><b>Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.</b></p><p><i>The China Record</i> provides readers with an ambitious detailed and wide-ranging examination of the People's Republic of China (PRC) under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) both as an alternative mode of political system and a distinctive model of socioeconomic development. Fei-Ling Wang assesses the record of the economy under the CCP people's lives and rights and China's spiritual and physical ecology. He focuses on issues of political representation criminal justice fiscal and monetary policies state-led growth living standards academia and education inequality and poverty disaster relief and pandemic prevention culture and ethics and the protection of antiquities and the environment. Using both quantitative and qualitative data <i>The China Record</i> seeks to provide a solid and balanced yet unflinching view about the nature strengths weaknesses and implications of the PRC as an emerging superpower and a potential world leader. It is an effort to introduce a holistic evaluation of the CCP-PRC's overall efficacy efficiency power sustainability and desirability-or the lack thereof.</p>