ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book severely criticized American cultural influences. The book could rightly be criticized if it were accurate in its descriptions but lacked policy recommendations. The text often tries to deconstruct the interest in power evident among modern mandarins. The book aims to show what Chinese people are doing, not just to recite traditional verities about how they are supposed to speak. The book criticizes past state predations and pretensions in the People's Republic of China (PRC), and it links these faults to continuing social arrogance among Chinese intellectuals. Civil and Uncivil Institutions analysis privileges political networks, but not just the state, both as objects of study and as causal vehicles. It argues that Beijing was less important than its spokes persons generally pretended, but it does not broadly argue that leadership was less important.
