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  • China's Quiet Rise

    Peace Through Integration

    by Shaohua Hu, Pei-shan Kao, Shu Keng, Tieh-shang Lee, Wei Liang, Ruihua Lin, Yu-nu Lu, Antonio C. Hsiang, Jerome S. Hsiang, Itamar Y. Lee, Yuan-Ming Alvin Yao ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    Despite China's desire to make its rapid ascendance in the 21st century as non provocative as possible, the key to ensure China's peaceful rise lies in two-way integration and engagement. A closely integrated China with the rest of the world and China's acceptance of existing international norms and rules may compel China to behave in a more predictable and responsive way. This co-edited book ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Dynamics of Local Governance in China During the Reform Era

    by Chih-Jou Jay Chen, Jianyu He, Shu Keng, Richard Madsen, Jean C. Oi, Kaoru Shimizu, Anne F. Thurston, Shaoguang Wang, Susan H. Whiting, Peter T.Y. Cheung ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Philosophy
    Since the Chinese economic reform was realized in the early 1990s, a significant revolution has been launched socially, economically, and politically in China. At present, China is an indispensable actor in the international arena, so that the transitions domestically bring about substantial influence on the whole world. Dynamics of Local Governance in China during the Reform takes close look at ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

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  • Between Flexibility and Reliability

    Changing Planning Culture in China

    by Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Read more

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  • China Today, China Tomorrow

    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

    $47.79 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

  • Populist Authoritarianism

    Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

    by Wenfang Tang ...
    Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Knowing China

    A Twenty-First Century Guide

    by Frank N. Pieke ...
    Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • A Middle Class Without Democracy

    Economic Growth and the Prospects for Democratization in China

    by Jie Chen ...
    What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well as theoretical question, Jie Chen explores attitudinal and behavioral orientation of China's new middle class to democracy and democratization. Chen's work is based on a unique set of data collected from a probability-sample ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Civil Society under Authoritarianism

    The China Model

    by Jessica C. Teets ...
    Despite the dominant narrative of the repression of civil society in China, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model argues that interactions between local officials and civil society facilitate a learning process, whereby each actor learns about the intentions and work processes of the other. Over the past two decades, often facilitated by foreign donors and problems within the ... Read more

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  • Contemporary China

    A History since 1978

    Edited by Yongnian Zheng ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the Contemporary World
    Using new research and considering a multidisciplinary set of factors, Contemporary China offers a comprehensive exploration of the making of contemporary China.Provides a unique perspective on China, incorporating newly published materials from within and outside China, in English and Chinese. Discusses both the societal and economic aspects of China’s development, and how these factors have ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • South Koreans in the Debt Crisis

    The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society

    by Jesook Song, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001). Jesook Song argues that while the government proclaimed that it would guarantee all South Koreans a minimum standard of living, it prioritized assisting those citizens perceived as embodying the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Dictator's Dilemma

    The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival

    by Bruce Dickson ...
    Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain. Their prediction, however, never proved true. Despite minor setbacks, China has experienced explosive economic growth and relative political stability ever since 1989. In The Dictator's Dilemma, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD