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How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China
Häftad, 2002
557 kr
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One of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China since the introduction of economic and social reforms in the early 1980s has been the mass migration of peasants from the countryside to urban areas across the country. Murphy's in-depth fieldwork in rural China offers a rich basis for her …
Human Rights in Chinese Thought
A Cross-Cultural Inquiry
Häftad, 2002
813 kr
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What should we make of claims by members of other groups to have moralities different from our own? Human Rights in Chinese Thought gives an extended answer to this question in the first study of its kind. It integrates a full account of the development of Chinese rights discourse - reaching back …
In Search of Chinese Democracy
Civil Opposition in Nationalist China, 1929-1949
Av Edmund S. K. Fung, William Kirby
Häftad, 2006
653 kr
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Why modern China has been unable to institutionalize democracy is a long-standing topic of debate and the ultimate subject of this book. The greatest momentum for democracy, Edmund Fung contends, emerged between 1929 and 1949 with civil opposition to the one-party rule of the Guomindang. This …
Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949
Av Yung-chen Chiang, William Kirby
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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In this 2001 book Yung-chen Chiang tells the story of the origins, hopes, visions and achievements of the social sciences movement in China during the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the efforts of social scientists at three institutions - the Yanjing Sociology Department, Nankai …
Social Transformation in Modern China
The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900-1937
Av Xin Zhang
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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The sources and nature of China's transformation from a traditional to modern society - accelerated in the early twentieth century by the downfall of the Qing dynasty, the advent of foreign technology and increasing commercialization - are critical issues for the study of modern China. In this …
Chinese Professionals and the Republican State
The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937
Häftad, 2006
721 kr
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Xiaoqun Xu makes a compelling and original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this book on the rise of professional associations in Republican China in their birthplace of Shanghai, and of their political and socio-cultural milieu. This 2001 book is rich in detail about the key …
Power and Wealth in Rural China
The Political Economy of Institutional Change
Av Susan H. Whiting, William Kirby
Häftad, 2006
687 kr
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China's rural industrial sector has been the engine driving much of the Chinese economy's dynamism during the reform period. The nature and development of this sector, also referred to as township and village enterprises (TVEs) defy easy explanation. Across regions, there is dramatic variation in …
The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace
State, Revolution, and Labor Management
Av Mark W. Frazier, William Kirby
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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State workers in China have until recently enjoyed the 'iron rice bowl' of comprehensive cradle-to-grave benefits and lifetime employment. This central institution in Chinese politics emerged over the course of various crises that swept through China's industrial sector prior to and after …
Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics
Av Jing Huang
Häftad, 2006
764 kr
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Factionalism is widely understood to be a distinguishing characteristic of Chinese politics. In this book, first published in 2000, Jing Huang examines the role of factionalism in leadership relations and policy-making. His detailed knowledge of intra-party politics offers an alternative …
Banking in Modern China
Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937
Av Linsun Cheng, William Kirby
Häftad, 2007
938 kr
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This book documents the evolution of modern Chinese banking, from the establishment in 1897 of the first Chinese bank along a Western model, to the abrupt interruption of professional banking by the Japanese invasion in 1937. Drawing from original documents of major Chinese banks, Linsun Cheng …
Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China
Av Thomas P. Bernstein, Xiaobo Lü
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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The financial burden imposed upon the Chinese farmer by local taxes has become a major source of discontent in the Chinese countryside and a worrisome source of political and social instability for the Chinese government. Bernstein and Lü examine the forms and sources of heavy, informal taxation, …
From Mao to Market
Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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Andrew Wedemen argues that China succeeded in moving from a Maoist command economy to a market economy because the central government failed to prevent local governments from forcing prices to market levels. Having partially decontrolled the economy in the early 1980s, economic reformers baulked at …
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
Shanghai under Japanese Occupation
Av Christian Henriot, Wen-hsin Yeh
Häftad, 2009
720 kr
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The authors of this 2004 volume consult Chinese and Western archival materials to examine the Chinese War of Resistance against the Japanese in the Shanghai area. They argue that the war in China was a nationalistic endeavour carried out without an effective national leadership. Wartime Chinese …
Red Capitalists in China
The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change
Av Bruce J. Dickson, William Kirby
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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It has become a truism that continued economic reform in China will contribute to political change. Policy makers as well as many scholars expect that formation of a private sector will lead, directly or indirectly through the emergence of a civil society, to political change and ultimately …
China's Use of Military Force
Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March
Av Andrew Scobell, William Kirby
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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In this 2003 study of China's militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995-6) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. …
Party vs. State in Post-1949 China
The Institutional Dilemma
Inbunden, 1997
1628 kr
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This book provides the most comprehensive analysis of one of the most important issues in China today: the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese state legislative, judicial, administrative, and military institutions. Taking the 'neo-institutionalist' approach, the author …
Party vs. State in Post-1949 China
The Institutional Dilemma
Av Shiping Zheng, William Kirby
Häftad, 1997
569 kr
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This book provides the most comprehensive analysis of one of the most important issues in China today: the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese state legislative, judicial, administrative, and military institutions. Taking the 'neo-institutionalist' approach, the author …
Women's Work in Rural China
Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform
Av Tamara Jacka, William Kirby
Häftad, 1997
536 kr
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Since 1978, reform policies introduced in rural China have had a profound impact on women's work and gender divisions of labour. This book provides detailed information on shifts in women's work patterns. It explains how and why these shifts have come about, and how they relate to women's position …
Selling China
Foreign Direct Investment during the Reform Era
Häftad, 2005
477 kr
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In this book, Yasheng Huang makes a provocative claim: the large absorption of foreign direct investment (FDI) by China is a sign of some substantial weaknesses in the Chinese economy. The primary benefits associated with China's FDI inflows are concerned with the privatization functions supplied …
Hong Kong under Chinese Rule
The Economic and Political Implications of Reversion
Inbunden, 1997
1626 kr
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What will the reversion of Hong Kong mean to the people of Hong Kong - and the rest of us - who invest, trade, and shop there? Over the last fifty years Hong Kong has served as a refuge from those who fled communism in China. It became the greatest entrepot and financial center on the Asian …
Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics
Av Jing Huang
Inbunden, 2000
2103 kr
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Factionalism is widely understood to be a distinguishing characteristic of Chinese politics. In this book, first published in 2000, Jing Huang examines the role of factionalism in leadership relations and policy-making. His detailed knowledge of intra-party politics offers an alternative …
Power and Wealth in Rural China
The Political Economy of Institutional Change
Av Susan H. Whiting, William Kirby
Inbunden, 2000
1928 kr
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China's rural industrial sector has been the engine driving much of the Chinese economy's dynamism during the reform period. The nature and development of this sector, also referred to as township and village enterprises (TVEs) defy easy explanation. Across regions, there is dramatic variation in …
Forging Reform in China
The Fate of State-Owned Industry
Av Edward S. Steinfeld, William Kirby
Inbunden, 1998
1723 kr
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The greatest economic challenge facing China in the post-Deng era is the reform of unprofitable, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) which threaten to drag down the rest of the economy. Despite an array of well-intentioned, market-oriented reform measures, these firms have never truly been forced to …
Streetlife China
Av Michael Dutton, Michael Dutton m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
471 kr
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This imaginative and incisive collection of pieces about life in contemporary China reveals, like a series of snapshots, a picture of the lives of ordinary people and the rules and rituals that govern their daily existence. Key themes surface: in particular, the emergence of a consumer culture …
Social Transformation in Modern China
The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900-1937
Av Xin Zhang
Inbunden, 2000
1073 kr
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The sources and nature of China's transformation from a traditional to modern society - accelerated in the early twentieth century by the downfall of the Qing dynasty, the advent of foreign technology and increasing commercialization - are critical issues for the study of modern China. In this …
China in the World Market
Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era
Inbunden, 2002
1005 kr
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This book reframes our thinking about the nature of China's reform and opening. Thomas Moore argues that the structuring impact of the international political economy represents one of the most theoretically important yet inadequately studied issues concerning change in post-Mao China. After …
China in the World Market
Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era
Av Thomas G. Moore, William Kirby
Häftad, 2002
623 kr
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This book reframes our thinking about the nature of China's reform and opening. Thomas Moore argues that the structuring impact of the international political economy represents one of the most theoretically important yet inadequately studied issues concerning change in post-Mao China. After …
China since Tiananmen
From Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao
Häftad, 2008
487 kr
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In this edition of his path-breaking analysis of political and social change in China since the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Joseph Fewsmith traces developments since 2001. These include the continuing reforms during the final years of Jiang Zemin's premiership and Hu Jintao's succession …
Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949
Av Yung-chen Chiang, William Kirby
Inbunden, 2001
1628 kr
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In this 2001 book Yung-chen Chiang tells the story of the origins, hopes, visions and achievements of the social sciences movement in China during the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the efforts of social scientists at three institutions - the Yanjing Sociology Department, Nankai …
In Search of Chinese Democracy
Civil Opposition in Nationalist China, 1929-1949
Inbunden, 2000
1041 kr
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Why modern China has been unable to institutionalize democracy is a long-standing topic of debate and the ultimate subject of this book. The greatest momentum for democracy, Edmund Fung contends, emerged between 1929 and 1949 with civil opposition to the one-party rule of the Guomindang. This …
