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Modern China: A Very Short Introduction Condition:Like New 'Once there was a widowChina today is never out of the human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese "economic miracle." It is a country of contradictions, a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, an ancient civilization that is modernizing rapidly, and a walled off nation that is increasingly at the center of world trade. This Very Short Introduction offers an