Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century

Beyond the glittering towers of the major Chinese cities, nearly one billion people still live in abject poverty. Rural China has been abandoned by the government: no schools, no health care, no hope. Discontent is expressed by rebellions, which are immediately put down by a brutal police force, while human-rights activists, religious leaders, and freethinkers are imprisoned or executed. As Guy Sorman reveals in The Empire of Lies, China's success is, at least in part, an illusion. True, 20...