In this revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® Jeffery N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide an excellent introduction to this significant global power. Praise for the first edition: "Wasserstrom has accomplished a remarkable feat: melding the insights from deep scholarly immersion in history with an up-to-the-minute grasp on contemporary developments in China and beyond. Written in a crisp prose,...questions big and small, alarmingly complex and deceptively simple