Is China's growth socially pathological?

Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: South Asia, language: English, abstract: China´s policies seem to be in many ways far apart from what western societies consider being fair and just. The reason is that the Western hemisphere shares a fundamentally different belief system of what "justice" and freedom" mean. This leads to the main question of this paper, if China´s growth is "socially pathological". For answering that, we will first compare China with "free market" democracies, in a second step provide some data representing indicators for China´s "social level" and in a third step talk about "workforce exploitation" and perpetrators of partially difficult circumstances.