Summary of Joanna Chiu's China Unbound

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Get the Summary of Joanna Chiu's China Unbound in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the multi-billion-dollar “New Silk Road” global investment project to a growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions through “United Front” efforts. Chiu offers readers background on the protests in Hong Kong, underground churches in Beijing, and exile Uyghur communities in Turkey, and exposes Beijing’s high-tech surveillance and aggressive measures that result in human rights violations against those who challenge its power. The new world disorder documented in China Unbound lays out the disturbing implications for global stability, prosperity, and civil rights everywhere.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669341840

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#1

The author was invited to visit a Protestant church after befriending a basketball group member.

#2

Christianity first appeared in China during the Tang Dynasty, but it didn’t gain a significant following until Jesuit missionaries arrived in the sixteenth century and preached the religion to the Chinese elite.

#3

Christianity is not allowed in China, and those who practice it outside of official channels are subject to persecution.

#4

Many young Chinese are seeking meaning in their lives, and Christianity offers them that.

#5

China’s surveillance state is not limited to the internet. CCTV cameras are also omnipresent, and the government monitors what its citizens say.

#6

The Chinese government has been controlling its people through the principles of Confucianism and Legalism for a long time.

#7

Legalism is a Chinese philosophy that was compatible with the Confucian world view because it empowered the emperor to rule effectively over a vast empire containing people of different ethnicities and cultures through sets of codified laws and edicts. It was a form of absolute power through bureaucracy.

#8

The Chinese Communist Party, under Mao’s rule, had a long history of suppressing any signs of opposition. The party’s founder, Chen Duxiu, was a left-wing intellectual who admired Vladimir Lenin and his ideas of a strong, centralized Communist state.

#9

Mao was a Chinese Communist who led the country from 1949