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Understanding China
Governance, Socio-Economics, Global Influence
Av Chandran Nair, Jorgen Randers m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
665 kr
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This book offers a long-overdue, balanced, and objective perspective on China’s transformation from a constrained economy in the late 1970s to a leading global power in 2024.It examines the political motivations behind China’s rise through a detailed contextualisation of the reforms and opening-up …
China's Changing Economy
Trends, Impacts and the Future
Häftad, 2019
515 kr
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One of the most dramatic events in the global economy over the past few decades has been the rise of China as a global economic power. From humble beginnings in the late 1970s, the policy shift in China from a planned to market economy has led to economic growth of tremendous speed.This book …
State Propaganda in China's Entertainment Industry
Av Shenshen Cai
Häftad, 2019
770 kr
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Most current research on the evolution of China’s propaganda discourse only touches upon recent variations of official propaganda rhetoric grounded in popular media. Here, the research is extended by tapping into the most recently released popular cultural media narratives such as online …
Intellectual Discourse in Reform Era China
The Debate on the Spirit of the Humanities in the 1990s
Häftad, 2019
770 kr
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This book explores intellectual discourse in reform era China by analysing the so-called “debate on the spirit of the Humanities”, which occurred in the years 1993-95, and which is recognised by scholars as one of the most interesting, influential and important debates of the 1990s. This debate, in …
Cyberdualism in China
The Political Implications of Internet Exposure of Educated Youth
Av Shiru Wang
Häftad, 2019
384 kr
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Internet usage in China has recently grown exponentially, rising from 59 million users in 2002 to 710 million by mid-2016. One in every two Chinese has currently been exposed to the Internet. This upsurge has made political communication among citizens and between the government and citizens less …
Gender and Employment in Rural China
Av Jing Song
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. Using four village case studies, Song examines how this restructuring process affects the rural population.Much of her research is centered on …
Political Mobility of Chinese Regional Leaders
Performance, Preference, Promotion
Av Liang Qiao
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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A monarch is usually born, a member of parliament or a president is usually elected, but a regional leader in China is usually orchestrated to replace his or her predecessor through an opaque process and for reasons not normally made public. The professional trajectories of Chinese regional leaders …
Civilising Citizens in Post-Mao China
Understanding the Rhetoric of Suzhi
Av Delia Lin
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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Political discourse in contemporary China is intimately linked to the patriotic reverie of restoring China as a great civilisation, a dream of reformers since the beginning of the twentieth century. The concept and use of suzhi – a term that denotes the idea of cultivating a ‘quality’ citizenship – …
Popular Politics and the Quest for Justice in Contemporary China
Av Susanne Brandtstädter, Hans Steinmüller
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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The rise of popular politics is among one the most significant social and political developments the People’s Republic of China has witnessed in the post-Mao era. People from all walks of life have responded to rising inequalities and the privatization of collective goods with a new quest for …
China's Rise and the Chinese Overseas
Av Bernard Wong, Chee-Beng TAN
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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Since the 1978 opening up of China and her active engagement in economic reformation and modernization, China has become a truly global economic power. These developments have, consequently, had an impact on ethnic Chinese people living across the world. Traditionally, the study of immigrant …
Internet Video Culture in China
YouTube, Youku, and the Space in Between
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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Examining Internet culture in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the US, this book analyzes videos which entertain both English and Chinese-speaking viewers to gain a better understanding of cultural similarities and differences. Each of the chapters in the volume studies …
China's Foreign Policy since 1949
Continuity and Change
Av Kevin Cai
Inbunden, 2022
2578 kr
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This book provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis and overview of China’s foreign policy since 1949. It starts with constructing an analytical framework for explaining Chinese foreign policy and then, on the basis of that, outlines and analyzes developments in different areas of foreign …
China's Quest for Sporting Mega-Events
The Politics of International Bids
Inbunden, 2020
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This book vividly elucidates the inseparable nature between politics and sport in China.The holding of sporting mega-events is viewed by the Chinese authorities as a prominent way to push forward the Reform and Opening up, arouse the patriotism among the public, and display national resurgence in …
China's Soviet Dream
Propaganda, Culture, and Popular Imagination
Av Yan Li
Häftad, 2019
844 kr
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This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People’s Republic of China, with a focus on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. The vast state initiative to transplant Soviet culture into Chinese soil has conventionally been dismissed as a tool of propaganda …
Civil Society in China and Taiwan
Agency, Class and Boundaries
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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The concept of 'civil society' has often been used as a devise for differentiating China from other cultures. Though sometimes portrayed as a growing phenomenon, Chinese civil society is frequently said to be non-existent. Definitional deficiencies have, therefore, led to both a simplification and …
Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture
Altering Archives
Av Peng Hsiao-yen, Ella Raidel
Häftad, 2019
770 kr
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Cinema archives memories, conserves the past, and rewrites histories. As much as the Sinophone embodies differences, contemporary Sinophone cinemas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People’s Republic of China invest various images of contested politics in order to assert different histories and …
Public Security and Governance in Contemporary China
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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The recent rise in reported public security issues in China is one of the most repeated concerns amongst the Chinese authorities. During the past 30 years of reform in China, stability maintenance as a governance strategy has in fact laid a solid foundation for the overall development and growth of …
Living in the Shadows of China's HIV/AIDS Epidemics
Sex, Drugs and Bad Blood
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
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Identifying the existing challenges and shortfalls of China's current HIV/AIDS programming, this book provides an understanding of the history of HIV/AIDS in China, comparing government responses to global best practice in prevention and treatment.Considering three key populations in China, namely, …
Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies
Av Howard Chiang, Alvin K. Wong
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This volume showcases a vibrant wave of scholarship that explores the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, consolidating an interdisciplinary framework for furthering transnational research into non-conforming genders, sexualities and bodies. Engaging with contemporary debates and …
Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
Av Susanne Y.P. Choi, Eric Fong
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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Since 1995 most mainland migrants to Hong Kong have been the wives or non-adult children of Hong Kong men of lower socio-economic status. The majority of immigrants are women, who throughout the past two decades have accounted for more than 60% of immigration. The profile of immigrants has been …
Chinese Fans of Japanese and Korean Pop Culture
Nationalistic Narratives and International Fandom
Av Lu Chen
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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How can Japanese popular culture gain numerous fans in China, despite pervasive anti-Japanese sentiment? How is it that there’s such a strong anti-Korean sentiment in Chinese online fan communities when the official Sino-Korean relationship is quite stable before 2016? Avid fans in China are …
Citizenship, Identity and Social Movements in the New Hong Kong
Localism after the Umbrella Movement
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution’ has been widely regarded as a watershed moment in the polity’s post-1997 history. While public protest has long been a routine part of Hong Kong’s political culture, the preparedness of large numbers of citizens to participate in civil disobedience represented a …
Interest Groups and the New Democracy Movement in Hong Kong
Häftad, 2019
740 kr
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A new era in the democracy movement in Hong Kong began on July 1, 2003, when half a million people protested on the streets, and has included the 2012 anti-National Education campaign, the 2014 Occupy Central Movement and the rapid rise of localist groups. The new democracy movement in Hong Kong is …
Emerging Adulthood in Hong Kong
Social Forces and Civic Engagement
Häftad, 2019
820 kr
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How emerging adults, broadly referring to those aged from 18 to 29 years old, fare in civic engagement, as compared with other adults is the focus of the present work. The work takes civic engagement to comprise prosociality in civil society, sustaining social institutions, and challenging …
Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema
Reimagining a Field
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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This edited collection explores new developments in the burgeoning field of Chinese ecocinema, examining a variety of works from local productions to global market films, spanning the Maoist era to the present.The ten chapters examine films with ecological significance in mainland China, Hong Kong, …
Modern Art for a Modern China
The Chinese Intellectual Debate, 1900–1930
Av Yiyan Wang
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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How did art reform fit into the many initiatives for social and cultural change that contributed to the New Cultural Movement that transformed the Chinese cultural landscape during the Republican period?"Modern art for a modern China" was the rallying cry of Chinese intellectuals, many of whom were …
Politics of Waste Management in Greater China
Environmental Governance and Public Participation in Transition
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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The growth of municipal waste is a common challenge found in the urbanised cities of Greater China, but the question of how to manage municipal waste is controversial. Wong examines the politics of managing municipal waste in three cities of Greater China: Guangzhou, Taipei, and Hong Kong. She …
Macau 20 Years after the Handover
Changes and Challenges under “One Country, Two Systems”
Av Meng U Ieong
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This book outlines the major social and political changes in the city of Macau during its first 20 years under the "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement with Mainland China.Despite the long-standing image of Macau as Asia’s Las Vegas, it is a city that has changed a great deal since its return to …
Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China
Morning Sun in the Tiny Times
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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This book surveys the explosive youth culture in twenty-first century China, an active and powerful force catalysing cultural innovations, social changes, and collective efforts, re-inventing a pluralistic and multivalent youth (qingnian) in an age of enormous change, division and uncertainty. …
China's Generation Gap
Häftad, 2019
740 kr
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Based on data collected for the Generation Gap Survey in Shanghai and updated to take into account contemporary trends, this book uses an empirical approach to study the generation gap in China. It covers various aspects of life from professional and family life to political participation and …
