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Moreover, the influence of a collapsed society, such as the Western Roman Empire, may linger on long after its death. [5] The study of societal collapse, collapsology, is a topic for specialists of history, anthropology, sociology, and political science. More recently, they are joined by experts in cliodynamics and study of complex systems. [6] [3]
The Coming Collapse of China at the Internet Archive The Coming Collapse of China is a book by Gordon G. Chang , published in 2001, in which he argued that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was the root cause of many of China 's problems and would cause the country's collapse by 2011.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."
More generally, recent research pointed to climate change as a key player in the decline and fall of historical societies in China, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. In fact, paleoclimatogical temperature reconstruction suggests that historical periods of social unrest, societal collapse, and population crash and significant climate ...
The crisis at the heavily-indebted property giant deepened as a Hong Kong court ordered it to be wound up.
For starters, China still suffers from excess female child mortality, as a result of the one child policy and sex-selective abortions, which favor sons over daughters. [19] Although the practice is illegal, sons provide a greater cultural and economic advantage for Chinese families: they carry the family lineage, they support parents in old-age ...
It was the latest in China's long history of deadly industrial accidents, which occur regularly despite government pledges to clamp down on lax standards, poor oversight and corruption frequently ...
China's economy, amidst electricity shortages, regulatory crackdowns, and a deflating real estate sector, is at a turning point. What will it mean for China, and for the world, if the Chinese ...