This book gives a panoramic review of China's 70 years of modernization, reveals the historical process and logic of the formation of the modernization path with Chinese characteristics, especially focuses on the key decision-making process in the history of China's modernization, theoretically compares the Chinese model and the western mainstream model and summarizes the characteristics and experience of China's development model. At the same time, it reveals the causes of the global crisis from a historical perspective and puts forward the future of China based on historical experience.

The book tries to answer the following hot-debating questions: What is the core of Chinese experience? Is China model a new model of modernization? Is China's model sustainable? Is this model compatible with the mainstream model? What is the relationship between China's revolution and modernization? How will China's development affect the world?

This book will be found helpful by all scholars, students and the public who are interested in China's development path.

Provides a comprehensive overview and historical and theoretical analysis of China's modern history from 1949 to 2019 Illustrates China's unique modernization model and compares it with the mainstream model Summarizes and discusses almost all popular thoughts and debates on China's development way

Autorentext
Jiang Yu, Researcher of Development Research Center (DRC) of States Council / Center for International Knowledge on Development,(CIKD), Beijing, China. Economic PH.D of Peking University and visiting scholar at Department of Economics, Columbia University. First Prize of China Development Research Award Winner. Research interests in Chine's development road, political economics, development economics. His work and are best-seller books on Chinese development way.

Inhalt
Chapter1. China's Early Choice of Modernization Path.- Chapter2. Seeking a Chinese Path (19561976).- Chapter3. Legacy of the Mao Era and China's Modernization.- Chapter4. Dialectics of the Market Economy.- Chapter5. Chinese Democracy.- Chapter6. Chinese New Model of Modernization. Chapter7. Understanding Marxism in China.- Chapter8. A Macro-historical View of the Global Crisis.- Chapter9. China's New Era (2012- ) and Xi Thoughts.