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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “daming zhou”
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  • Urban Migrants in China

    by Daming Zhou ...
    Translated by Yu Cao ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the background, migration, and settlement of new migrants in China. It also examines the status of their social networks, the role of urban society, social security, and future planning. Based on semi-structured interviews, the book analyzes these aspects of new urban migrants and argues that:- Intellectual migrants, with their strong educational background, are willing to ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Revisiting China's Rural Urbanisation

    A Pearl River Delta Region Perspective

    by Daming Zhou ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    This book analyses the urbanisation of rural China in the period of the country’s reform and opening-up based on an investigation of five villages in the Pearl River Delta region, analysing progress, problems and future prospects in the light of long-term investigations on the ground and follow-up fieldwork.Drawing on a vast body of data obtained from participation observation, interviews, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Emergence of a New Urban China

    Insiders' Perspectives

    Edited by Zai Liang, Steven Messner, Cheng Chen, Youqin Huang ...
    This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with the latter based on extensive and in-depth fieldwork. The authors, most of them being native ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Restructuring the Chinese City

    Changing Society, Economy and Space

    by Laurence J.C. Ma, Fulong Wu ...
    A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of urban formation and the consequent reconstituted urban spaces. With arguments against the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Accepting Authoritarianism

    State-Society Relations in China's Reform Era

    by Teresa Wright ...
    Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late industrialization, and socialist legacies have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic mobility, economic dependence on the state, and political options, giving citizens incentives to perpetuate the political status quo ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Governance in China

    by John P. Burns, Du Jie, Joseph Fewsmith, Linda Jakobson, Clemens Stubbe Ostergaard, Zhu Sanzhu, Zhang Jing, Dr. Jude Howell, Marc Blecher, Michael Keane ...
    Over the past two decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has paradoxically steered the development of a thriving capitalist economy. Unlike many faltering post-socialist states with fragile economies and weakly institutionalised democratic structures, China has witnessed a tide of economic entrepreneurialism that has raised living standards and the country's global economic stature. However, ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China

    Edited by Rachel Murphy ...
    Series series Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
    Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to urban areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China. Labour migration has not only exerted a profound impact on China’s economy; it has also had far-reaching consequences for its social development. This book examines labour migration in China, focusing on the social dimensions of this phenomenon, as well as on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • China After 1978

    Craters on the Moon

    by Economic and Political Weekly ...
    The Peoples Republic of China celebrated its 60th anniversary on 1 October 2009. December 2008 marked 30 years since the Chinese Communist Partys decision to launch market reforms. The breathtakingly rapid economic growth witnessed after 1978 has attracted worldwide attention. But the condition of more than 350 million workers is abysmal, especially that of the migrants among them. The stagnation ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Chinese State in Transition

    Processes and contests in local China

    Edited by Linda Chelan Li ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    One of the more commonly and widely held beliefs outside the People’s Republic of China about the changes wrought by the reform era is that there has been no political change The attention of the outside world focuses inevitably on Beijing and national level politics. Nonetheless, it may actually be at the more local levels that changes in politics and the state are most obviously made manifestThe ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • China's Gilded Age

    The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • China's Megatrends

    The 8 Pillars of a New Society

    by John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt ...
    "[John Naisbitt's] vision of the world's economy has the mark of genius." — Minneapolis Star TribuneInternationally-renowned futurist and bestselling author John Naisbitt is back with China's Megatrends, the most comprehensive look at the present and future of China and the transformation that is reshaping its economic, political, and social systems. Since publishing the enormously popular ... Read more

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  • The State and Industry in South Korea

    The Limits of the Authoritarian State

    by Jong-Chan Rhee ...
    The economic success of East Asia is often attributed to the relationship between state and business. In The State and Industry in South Korea , Jong-Chan Rhee presents a more balanced view of Korea's `industrial miracle'. The book examines the limits of a strong authoritarian state as a vehicle for intervening in the market or for sponsoring liberal reform. In so doing the author focuses on how ... Read more

    $61.99 USD