Minxin Pei è uno scienziato politico rinomato per la sua esperienza nelle relazioni sino-americane. La sua carriera accademica è stata dedicata all'analisi delle complessità della strategia internazionale e delle dinamiche politiche. Il lavoro di Pei offre profonde intuizioni sulle complessità del potere globale, attingendo alla sua vasta ricerca e leadership accademica.
China’s efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized by corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Party rule, Minxin Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China’s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay.
Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression, China's surveillance system is above all a labor-intensive project. Pei delves into the human sources of coercion at the foundation of CCP power.