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  • Rethinking Chinese Transnational Enterprises

    Cultural Affinity and Business Strategies

    by Leo Douw, Cen Huang, David Ip ...
    Affinity to the Chinese culture, personalized social networks and a firm control of ownership and management have often been considered the key ingredients for the success of many diaspora Chinese transnational enterprises in South China and Southeast Asia. In view of the recent Asian crisis and the rapid changes imposed by globalization, scholars are increasingly concerned whether these family ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Qiaoxiang Ties

    Interdisciplinary Approaches to 'Cultural Capitalism' in South China

    Edited by Leo Douw, Cen Huang, Michael R. Godley ...
    First Published in 1999. This volume is a product of the research programme of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, entitled International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties during the Twentieth Century. The programme will run from 1996-2000 (for a fuller description, please see the Appendix chapter). The book was prepared during a workshop at the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Dealing with China

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  • When China Rules the World

    The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order: Second Edition

    by Martin Jacques ...
    Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese powerSoon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western.Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • CEO, China

    The Rise of Xi Jinping

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has seen his rivals imprisoned, Xi Jinping has been quietly building one of the most powerful ... Read more

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  • A System Apart

    Hong Kong’s Political Economy from 1997 till Now: Penguin Specials

    by Simon Cartledge ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Since 1997, Hong Kong’s economic growth rate has dropped sharply, inequality has increased, and corruption has found its way to the highest levels of government. These developments, Simon Cartledge argues, can be attributed to the city’s ‘pro-business’ constitution, which has held back change and led to the rise of an anti-establishment, localist opposition. A System Apart traces the interplay of ... Read more

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  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model ... Read more

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  • Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics

    Entrepreneurship and the State

    by Yasheng Huang ...
    Presents a story of two Chinas – an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand. In the 1990s, urban China triumphed. In the 1990s, the Chinese state reversed many of its rural experiments, with long-lasting damage to the economy and society. A weak financial sector, income disparity, rising illiteracy, productivity slowdowns, and ... Read more

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    Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society

    Edited by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In this timely book, a group of leading scholars provides a comprehensive assessment of China's polity, economy, and society. Taking the thirtieth anniversary of Beijing's adoption of reform and opening as an occasion to reflect on the course of development over the past three decades, the contributors consider where the country may be going in the future. Just as China has had enormous success in ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Banking Industry

    Lessons from History for Today's Challenges

    by Yuanyuan Peng ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949.Banking reform is a key area of China’s economic transformation, and this book, bringing a vast amount of material to a Western audience for the first time, provides a detailed ... Read more

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