Minxin Pei est un politologue réputé pour son expertise dans les relations sino-américaines. Sa carrière universitaire a été consacrée à l'analyse des subtilités de la stratégie internationale et des dynamiques politiques. Le travail de Pei offre des aperçus profonds sur les complexités du pouvoir mondial, s'appuyant sur ses recherches approfondies et son leadership académique.
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.