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  • Chinese Ethnic Business

    Global and Local Perspectives

    Edited by Eric Fong, Chiu Luk ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization, specifically economic globalization, in the key receiving countries of the US, Australia and Canada. Focusing on the main themes of economic globalization and Chinese community ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences."― Zelizer Best Book in Economic ... Read more

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  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    by Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Millionaire Migrants

    Trans-Pacific Life Lines

    by David Ley ...
    Series Book 97 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Contemporary China

    Society and Social Change

    by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson, Andrew B. Kipnis ...
    China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The New Rich in China

    Future rulers, present lives

    Edited by David Goodman ...
    Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although China’s new rich are certainly a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • International Aid and China's Environment

    Taming the Yellow Dragon

    by Katherine Morton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its modernization.Using case studies, Morton analyzes the relationship between international and local responses to ... Read more

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  • Rural Migrants in Urban China

    Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

    Edited by Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • China on the Move

    Migration, the State, and the Household

    by C. Cindy Fan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    China on the Move offers a new and more thorough explanation of migration, which integrates knowledge from geography, population studies, sociology and politics; to help us understand the processes of social, political, and economic change associated with powerful migration streams so essential to Chinese development.Using a large body of research, clear and attractive illustrations (maps, tables, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Localized Bargaining

    The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program

    by Xiao Ma ...
    Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show how local governments play a complex role. China's high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. Despite global media coverage, we know very little about the political process that led the government to invest in the railway program and the reasons for the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era

    Towards a Hybrid Capitalism

    by Henry Wai-chung Yeung ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
    Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era examines the dynamic ways in which millions of ethinic Chinese in East and Southeast Asian economies organize their economic activities. It analyses how Chinese capitalism has changed under conditions of contemporary globalization and anticipates what the future holds for it. The book challenges the conventional notion of Chinese cpitalism as 'crony capitalism', ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Environmental Litigation in China

    A Study in Political Ambivalence

    by Rachel E. Stern ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for pollution in contemporary China. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts, Environmental Litigation in China unravels how everyday justice works: how judges make decisions, why lawyers take cases, and how international influence matters. It is a readable account of how the leadership's mixed signals and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD