Towards a New Development Paradigm in Twenty-First Century China

Eric Florence is a Researcher in the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies, University of Liege, Belgium.Pierre Defraigne is Professor and Executive Director, Madariaga College of Europe Foundation, Brussels, Belgium.

• Introduction Part 1. Reorientation of the Chinese growth model 1. China’s integration into the world economy: successes and new challenges 2. The limits of the sustainability of China’s growth 3. The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of China 4. The influence of the current crisis on China’s capital markets and its aftermath on portfolio investment in China Part 2. Recent policy shifts in the fields of labour and welfare 5. China's Reform of the Migrant Labour Regime and the Rural Migrants' Industrial Citizenship 6. The Shortage of Peasant Workers and the Dilemma Facing Chinese Industry 7. Chinese Socialist Heroes: From Workers to Entrepreneurs 8. Improving the Chinese Welfare State in the New Millennium Part 3. The Party State and Chinese Society: Contention, Accommodation and Collaboration 9. Village Governance Reforms in China: Paradigm Shift or Muddling Through? 10. Recent trends in Chinese rural education: The disturbing rural-urban disparities and the measures to meet them 11. The Rise of Civil Society in China 12. New Media and Subjectivity in China: Problematizing the Public Sphere