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  • Political Stability In China's Changing Social Landscape

    by Wei Shan ...
    Series series Eai Series On East Asia
    This book aims to contribute to the debate on 'authoritarian resilience' with empirical studies from a range of perspectives, including regime support, nationalism, environmental movement, ethnic conflicts and internet management. The chapters in this book centre around two separate but intertwined themes and are collated to discuss on the stability of China in Xi Jinping's era. The first theme ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • New Humanism And Global Governance

    by Lijun Yang, Wei Shan ...
    New Humanism and Global Governance is the first in this subject to study how a variety of factors related to globalization will shape the future of the human community. It discusses the major challenges to today's world order and governance, as well as international experience in responding to these challenges. It covers a wide range of issues including unequal distribution of wealth, the widening ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Metropolitan Circles Development And The Future Of Urbanization

    by Wei Shan, Lijun Yang ...
    This book discusses lessons and challenges of metropolitan circles development and urbanization in Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa. The book examines the effects of local governance systems, central-local relations, and administrative borders on metropolitan area development. It surveys economic, social and environmental issues, with an emphasis on how interconnectivity, ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • Changing State-society Relations In Contemporary China

    by Wei Shan, Lijun Yang ...
    This book attempts to provide an overview of social and political changes in Chinese society since the global financial crisis. Rapid economic development has restructured the setup of society and empowered or weakened certain social players. The chapters in this book provide an updated account of a wide range of social changes, including the rise of the middle class and private entrepreneurs, the ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Governing Society In Contemporary China

    by Wei Shan, Lijun Yang ...
    This book examines how the Chinese state responds to the increasingly diverse civil society and maintains regime stability in a changing society. In recent years, the Chinese leadership has demonstrated great capability of adapting and developing sophisticated mechanisms of social control. The chapters in this book cover a wide range of these mechanisms, including co-opting social forces, managing ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 1

    Climate Change and Engineering Geology

    Edited by Giorgio Lollino, Andrea Manconi, John Clague, Wei Shan, Marta Chiarle ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes and deals with climate change affecting different natural processes and environments, such as slope dynamics, water courses, coastal and marine environments, hydrological and littoral processes and permafrost terrain. Due to climate change, major effects are also expected on territorial planning and infrastructure, particularly in extreme climate ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Landslides in Cold Regions in the Context of Climate Change

    Edited by Wei Shan, Ying Guo, Fawu Wang, Hideaki Marui, Alexander Strom ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Landslides in cold regions have different mechanisms from those in other areas, and comparatively few research efforts have been made in this field. Recently, because of climate change, some new trends concerning landslide occurrence and motion have appeared, severely impacting economic development and communities. This book collects key case studies from the cold regions all over the world, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia

    Edited by Fawu Wang, Masakatsu Miyajima, Tonglu Li, Wei SHAN, Teuku Faisal Fathani ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book includes the recent 10-year achievement of geo-disaster mitigation by leading Asian scientists from Japan, China, Indonesia, Korea, Iran and Far East of Russia. Case studies on recent occurred geo-disasters in Asian region have been presented. The forming mechanics of hazards such as earthquake and landslide are deeply discussed, and the disaster mitigation technology for building and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Value Changes And Regime Stability In Contemporary China

    by Wei Shan ...
    Series Book 48 - Series On Contemporary China
    This book provides a comprehensive examination of value changes of Chinese citizens, especially the younger generation, and how the Chinese authorities take efforts to adapt to such changes and refine its social control mechanisms. The book discusses three related themes through a series of topics. The first theme examines the changes in political attitudes and values among Chinese youths, ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Reform And Development In China: After 40 Years

    by Wei Shan, Lijun Yang ...
    Series Book 44 - Series On Contemporary China
    This book provides a comprehensive review of China's experience in reform and opening up from political, social, and economic perspectives. It attempts to engage existing scholarly debates in three areas — first, how the party-state has evolved in the past four decades and whether it remains a Leninist system or has departed from this system; second, how public attitudes, values and behavior have ... Read more

    $77.39 USD

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    by Michael J. Benton ...
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  • The Party and the People

    Chinese Politics in the 21st Century

    by Bruce J. Dickson ...
    How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its peopleSince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone—it pairs this ... Read more

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