The Empire of Lies

by Sorman, Guy

• ISBN13: 9781594032639
• ISBN10: 1594032637
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-02
• Publisher: Encounter Books

Summary

Beyond the glittering towers of the major Chinese cities, nearly one billion people still live in abject poverty. Rural China has been abandoned by the government: no schools, no health care, no hope. Discontent is expressed by rebellions, which are immediately put down by a brutal police force, while human-rights activists, religious leaders, and freethinkers are imprisoned or executed. As Guy Sorman reveals in The Empire of Lies, China's success is, at least in part, an illusion. True, 200 million of her subjects, those fortunate enough to be, working in an expanding global market, enjoy a middle-class standard of living. The remaining one billion, however, are among the poorest, most exploited people in the world.

Author Biography

Guy Sorman is a leading French public intellectual. He is the author of twenty books on contemporary affairs. His most recent book is Economics Does Not Lie, published by Encounter Books. He is also a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, City Journal, Le Figaro in France, and other newspapers around the world.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. vii
Foreword to the American Edition	p. xiii
Prologue The Myth of China	p. xxi
The Dissenters	p. 1
Wild Grass	p. 27
The Mystics	p. 49
The Dispossessed	p. 73
The Downtrodden	p. 99
Skewed Development	p. 117
Shadows of Democracy	p. 139
The Savage State	p. 159
The End of the Party	p. 183
The Republicans	p. 215
A Moral	p. 235
Acknowledgments	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 245
Map	p. 254
Index	p. 257
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