This book provides a critical and comprehensive explanation of the China model and its origins, examining the issues that are critical to our understanding the significance of China's rise, and the ways in which China is responding to and might in turn reconfigure the world system we now live in as it develops fresh and potentially more powerful regulatory capacities. It will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Chinese economics, international economics, economic history and Chinese studies more generally.

Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons, stories, and explanations for why they are entitled to rule. To shield those legitimating messages from criticism, authoritarian regimes also censor information that they find threatening. While committed opponents of the regime may be violently repressed, this book is about how the authoritarian state keeps the majority of its people quiescent by manipulating the ways in which they talk and think about political processes, the authorities, and political alternatives.

Using North Korea, Burma (Myanmar) and China as case studies,...