Routledge Studies on China in Transition – serie
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Economic Development in China's Northwest
Entrepreneurship and identity along China’s multi-ethnic borderlands
Av Joshua Bird
Häftad, 2019
776 kr
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Under the ethnic affairs management regime established by the People’s Republic of China, every Chinese citizen is classified within one of 56 state-recognised ‘nationalities’. Government policy assumes that these nationalities differ from one another primarily in their levels of economic …
Governing HIV in China
Commercial Sex, Homosexuality and Rural-to-Urban Migration
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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HIV and AIDS have long been problematized in the People’s Republic of China as objects of governance in political frameworks and institutions. The state’s attitudes towards health programs have, nevertheless, changed significantly during the 21st century. Pilot programs at the beginning of the …
China's Housing Middle Class
Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities
Av Beibei Tang
Häftad, 2019
851 kr
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Home ownership plays a significant role in locating the middle class in most western societies, associated with market, consumerism, democracy and “people like us”, the significant features of the middle class for any society. In China, private home ownership was not the norm from 1949, when the …
Public Participation and State Building in China
Case Studies from Zhejiang
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book explores non-electoral means of public participation in contemporaryChina, both as an outcome of and a key contributor to the party-state’sefforts to improve its governing capacity.Examining consultative meetings, public hearings, and the use of surveysand questionnaires in Zhejiang …
China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market
Av Jiawen Han
Häftad, 2019
776 kr
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China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese architecture in relation to Chinese modernity, this book examines this …
Local Elites in Post-Mao China
Av Yingjie Guo
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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This book provides fresh insights into the study of Chinese elites at the county level and below. By shifting the analytical focus onto the agency of elites at the local level and away from the institutional structures within which they operate, it fills a number of significant gaps in the field.In …
Suzhou in Transition
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Through the lens of the city of Suzhou, this edited volume presents views on the complex interaction between the central state, market agents, local governments and individuals who have shaped the development of Chinese cities and urban life. Featuring a range of disciplinary perspectives, …
Social Relations and Political Development in China
Change and Continuity in the "New Era"
Av Zhengxu Wang, agan Pavlićević
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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As China enters its proclaimed ‘New Era’ under President Xi Jinping, this book examines changes and continuity in social relations and political development, investigating new developments against the backdrop of continuations of long-term trends and previous policies.What has remained outside many …
Social Relations and Political Development in China
Change and Continuity in the "New Era"
Av Zhengxu Wang, agan Pavlićević
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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As China enters its proclaimed ‘New Era’ under President Xi Jinping, this book examines changes and continuity in social relations and political development, investigating new developments against the backdrop of continuations of long-term trends and previous policies.What has remained outside many …
Suzhou in Transition
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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Through the lens of the city of Suzhou, this edited volume presents views on the complex interaction between the central state, market agents, local governments and individuals who have shaped the development of Chinese cities and urban life. Featuring a range of disciplinary perspectives, …
Beyond Beijing
Liberalization and the Regions in China
Av Dali L. Yang
Inbunden, 1997
2525 kr
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This book offers a balanced assessment of the dynamics and consequences of the decentralization of power and resources in post- Mao China. The author argues that decentralization has increased tensions amongst ethnic groups and unleashed much competition and emulation among local governments. This …
China's Enterprise Reform
Changing State/Society Relations After Mao
Av You Ji
Inbunden, 1997
2525 kr
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China's basic work units, collectively known as the danwei system, have undergone significant reform, particularly since 1984. The author examines how this system operates and how reform is generating change in the party at grassroots level.The author demonstrates how China's post-Mao reforms have …
Industrial Change in China
Economic Restructuring and Conflicting Interests
Av Kate Hannan
Inbunden, 1998
2525 kr
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This book analyses the industrial reform measures taken by the Chinese government during the decade 1985-95 and identifies the economic and political tensions and contradictions that state enterprise reform has presented to a leadership intent on maintaining its authoritative political …
Entrepreneurial State in China
Real Estate and Commerce Departments in Reform Era Tianjin
Av Jane Duckett
Inbunden, 1998
791 kr
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Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the …
Tourism and Modernity in China
Av Tim Oakes
Inbunden, 1998
2525 kr
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This book explores how the experience of modernization is revealed in China's newly constructed tourist landscapes. It argues that in China's burgeoning ethnic tourist villages and theme parks can be seen all the contradictions, debasement, and liberating potentials of Chinese modernity. Tim Oakes …
Transforming Rural China
How Local Institutions Shape Property Rights in China
Inbunden, 2004
2600 kr
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It is often assumed that privatization leads to profit, and that well-delineated property rights and a strong private sector will help boost an economy. This book investigates the property rights in Chinese enterprises in the reform era, finding that distinction between the public and the private …
Cities in China
Recipes for economic development in the reform era
Av Jae Ho Chung
Inbunden, 1999
2525 kr
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This volume, written by contributors from a number of different specialisms, suggests that different combinations of factors have contributed to the relative successes and failures in these cities. Endowment factors, preferential policies, and history have all proved to be important. Most …
Regional Development in China
States, Globalization and Inequality
Inbunden, 2000
2525 kr
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This study systematically examines uneven regional development in China, focusing on three central agents: the foreign investor, the state and the region. Wei's findings have important implications for theories of, and policy towards, Chinese regional development. This book is a vital resource for …
China's Spatial Economic Development
Regional Transformation in the Lower Yangzi Delta
Inbunden, 2000
1575 kr
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The spatial patterns of China's rapid economic transformation fundamentally challenge conventional geographies of urban and regional development. This book provides a theoretically informed case study of the local character of regional change in China's lower Yangzi Delta, as well as a new …
Chinese Legal System
Globalization and Local Legal Culture
Inbunden, 2001
2315 kr
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The legal system of the People's Republic of China has seen significant changes since legal reforms began in 1978. At the end of the second decade of legal reform, law-making and institution-building have reached impressive levels. Understanding the operation and possible futures of law in the …
Grassroots Charisma
Four Local Leaders in China
Av Stephan Feuchtwang, Wang Mingming
Inbunden, 2001
2525 kr
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This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, …
Manager Empowerment in China
Political Implications of Rural Industrialisation in the Reform Era
Av Ray Yep
Inbunden, 2003
1575 kr
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Institutional changes in rural China caused by the economic reforms of the post-Mao era have led to a new pattern of state-society interaction in the rural polity. Central to this is the spectacular rise of a group of managerial elites. Contrary to economic predictors, this has been accompanied by …
Negotiating Ethnicity in China
Citizenship as a Response to the State
Av Chih-yu Shih
Inbunden, 2002
2525 kr
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This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the …
China, Sex and Prostitution
Inbunden, 2004
2454 kr
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China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts, including documents, press reports, police …
Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China
Av Xiaowei Zang
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
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Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By studying over one and a half thousand top political Chinese leaders, this book seeks to answer these questions and, as a result, defines how Chinese …
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China
Av Yingjie Guo
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
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In the vast majority of literature on 'Chinese nationalism' the distinction between nation and state is rarely made, consequently nationalism usually appears as loyalty to the state rather than identification with the nation. Yet, since 1989, both the official configuration of the nation and the …
Development of China's Stockmarket, 1984-2002
Equity Politics and Market Institutions
Inbunden, 2003
2600 kr
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As China's government manages a transition away from the socialist plan, how does it build the regulatory institutions it needs to manage the new market economy? Without the correct institutions, laws and agencies that implement the laws in place, the remarkable growth witnessed in China over the …
Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
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This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a centrally planned to a market one, and as China opened up to the outside world and was influenced by the outside world, Chinese …
China's Scientific Elite
Av Cong Cao
Inbunden, 2004
2525 kr
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China's Scientific Elite is a study of those scientists holding China's highest academic honour - membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Having carried out extensive systematic data collection of CAS members Cao examines the social stratification system of the Chinese science community and …
Locating China
Space, Place, and Popular Culture
Av Jing Wang
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China. The international team of contributors examine the inter-relationship between the cultural imaginary of a given place and China’s continuing …
