End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining its Rise

Maitituoheti ATAWULAIn recent years, China is getting more and more aggressive and assertive both in foreign and domestic behaviors.On the one hand, Chinese domestic security situation is continuously deteriorating, and the stability maintenance measures are becoming hard as well; on the other hand, China's disputes with its neighbors or with other main competitors, like India, Japan and US, are escalating and Chinese foreign policy is changing their moderate tone increasingly.These abrupt developments in Chinese longlasting moderate behaviors, foreign and domestic alike, surprised many people and draw wide attentions.As interests in learning what happening in China today arise, scholars tried to understand and explain these new developments in this country.As outcomes of such efforts, some valuable works are being presented to the public, responding to those questions: what is happening in China today?Why is happening?Which direction will China take?What are the possible scenarios for China's future?The book under review by Carl Minzner is one of them.Carl Minzner is a Law Professor at Fordham University Law School, whose works focus on Chinese legal institutions.He is an expert in Chinese law and governance, and has written extensively on these topics in both academic journals and the popular press.Although Professor Minzner is a specialist on the Chinese legal system, but this is not ,as he says (p. xvi), a book about law.It takes for the author over a decade to write this book.Most of general ideas for this book originated while the author was at the congressional-executive commission on China from 2003 to 2006, as a senior counsel.Others were developed between 2006-2007, while he was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joining Public Intellectuals Program from 2011 to 2013.He was able to meet a much wider range of experts from different research areas under that program and went to China among them.Aimed at encouraging midcareer academics to communicate with general public, the program played a crucial role in prompting the