From the bookshelf: ‘Overreach: how China derailed its peaceful rise’

TOPSHOT - Chinese paramilitary police march past a sign saying "Serve the Party and the People" at their barracks beside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 12, 2012. Pledges for more transparency by top Chinese Communist officials made following high-profile graft cases have been met with scepticism that corrupt leaders can come clean over their assets. Wang Yang, the top Communist official in the southern province of Guangdong, and Yu Zhengsheng, the party boss of Shanghai, both said Friday that Chinese officials would begin releasing details of their assets in the future. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo by MARK RALSTON / AFP) (Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)