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  • Social and Economic Stimulating Development Strategies for China’s Ethnic Minority Areas

    Translated by Xiaomei Tong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book gathers the outcomes of various, extensive research efforts on building a moderately prosperous society in minority areas, which would allow China’s poor and poverty-stricken areas to comprehensively join the rest of society. Offering an essential reference guide, the book will help readers understand the process, achievements, problems, and future development with regard to building a ... Read more

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  • Ethnicity and Inequality in China

    Series series Routledge Research on the Politics and Sociology of China
    This book analyses the behaviour of ethnic minority groups in China using the first comprehensive national dataset dedicated to capturing the socio-economic profile of ethnic minorities: the China Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES).Managing ethnic diversity in China has become an increasingly important subject, especially against the backdrop of the nation’s rampant economic growth and changing ... Read more

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  • China's Remarkable Economic Growth

    How has the Chinese economy managed to grow at such a remarkable rate - no less than ten per cent per annum - for over three decades? This well-integrated book combines economic theory, empirical estimation, and institutional analysis to address one of the most important questions facing contemporary economists. A common thread that runs throughout the book is the underlying political economy: why ... Read more

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  • Understanding the Chinese Economies

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    China's economic growth has been more robust in some regions than others. In a country as large as China, examinations of regional differences can provide a viable way to learn about the economy as a whole. Rongxing Guo provides a systematic introduction to the economies of China by describing their external and internal drivers and by placing them within geopolitical and even socio-cultural ... Read more

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  • Contemporary China

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  • International Aid and China's Environment

    Taming the Yellow Dragon

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  • China and Globalization

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    by Doug Guthrie ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009!In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the economic genesis in this compact and highly readable introduction to contemporary China. He highlights the ... Read more

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  • Contemporary China

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    Edited by Yongnian Zheng ...
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  • The Rise of the People’s Bank of China

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    With $4.5 trillion in total assets, the People’s Bank of China now surpasses the U.S. Federal Reserve as the world’s biggest central bank. The Rise of the People’s Bank of China investigates how this increasingly authoritative institution grew from a Leninist party-state that once jealously guarded control of banking and macroeconomic policy. Relying on interviews with key players, this book is ... Read more

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  • Understanding Chinese Society

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