books.google.co.uk - Sixty years ago, China was one of the poorest countries in the world, populated mostly by rural peasants, and still suffering from more than a century of internal turmoil and international humiliation. Today, China is a rapidly modernizing economic dynamo with growing global influence. Politics in China...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Politics_in_China.html?id=kk80evDTZIYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePolitics in China