Studies on Contemporary China – serie
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33 produkter
China's Legal Reforms
Häftad, 1996
858 kr
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Since the early 1980s, the People's Republic of China has been building legal institutions where no meaningful ones had existed before. This collection of essays by leading international scholars of Chinese law analyses the accomplishments of Chinese law reform and the problems that confront the …
Agricultural Instability in China, 1931-1990
Weather, Technology, and Institutions
Av Y. Y. Kueh
Inbunden, 1995
940 kr
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China is particularly dependent upon her agricultural surplus for financing her ambitious industrialization programme, but the performance of the agricultural sector of the economy has been extremely unstable throughout the twentieth century. Professor Kueh provides a scholarly and authoritative …
The Chinese Economy under Deng Xiaoping
Av Kueh Ash, Robert F. Ash m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
827 kr
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This book brings together distinguished contributors to create an essential reference volume on the future of China in the 1990s. The editors and contributors identify the main trends in the economy, cover the important topics carefully and comprehensively, and provide thought-provoking analysis of …
Economic Reform and State-Owned Enterprises in China 1979-87
Av Donald Hay, Derek Morris m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1412 kr
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This book is an investigation into China's reform process during the period 1979 to 1987, with especial reference to the effect of the process on the industries (mostly manufacturing) that are still owned by the state. The data on which this book is based results from a large-scale study in which …
China and Japan
History, Trends, and Prospects
Häftad, 1996
1060 kr
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This book is a remarkable attempt to understand and summarize the current and historical Sino-Japanese relationship: two countries bound by ties of history, culture, geography, and economic complementarity. Through this investigation, the contributors are also able to broaden our understanding of …
Deng Xiaoping
Portrait of a Chinese Statesman
Häftad, 1995
1047 kr
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Deng Xiaoping has been one of the late-twentieth century's preeminent statesmen. His impact will be felt well into the next century as China's economic reforms begin to have impressive effects, and China's international power grows. The life of Deng Xiaoping mirrors the history of China in the …
Chinese Foreign Policy
Theory and Practice
Av Thomas W. Robinson, David Shambaugh
Häftad, 1995
1940 kr
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Chinese Foreign Policy offers an unprecedented survey of China's foreign relations since 1949. The contributors include leading historians, economists, and political scientists in the field of Chinese studies, as well as noteworthy international relations specialists. The principal purposes of the …
Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China
Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia
Inbunden, 1997
3856 kr
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The key role of intellectuals in Mao's China has confounded Western scholars. Were they potential dissidents or actual servants of Chinese communism? The Chinese Communist Party could not have taken over China or governed it without a coalition of forces that included the intellectuals who …
China's Transitional Economy
Häftad, 1996
748 kr
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China's post-Mao economic reforms have generated and sustained economic growth, unprecedented rises in real income and living standards, and have transformed a long-time insular economy into a major trading nation. China now figures prominently in international policy debates about what is to be …
Japan's Economic Diplomacy with China, 1945-1978
Inbunden, 1999
1091 kr
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This book is a comprehensive study on Japan's postwar relations with China up until the end of the 1970s, i.e. prior to Deng Xiaopin's reform and open-door policies. The study is particularly strong on the detailed account of Japan's deep economic involvement with China initiated by a complex group …
China's Military in Transition
Av David Shambaugh, Richard H. Yang
Häftad, 1998
1481 kr
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China's Military in Transition is the most comprehensive study of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) ever published. Drawing upon a broad range of documentary sources and interviews, many of the world's leading specialists on the Chinese military provide in-depth and expert analyses of …
Contemporary Taiwan
Häftad, 1998
601 kr
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Contemporary Taiwan is the most comprehensive and up-to-date study of the dynamic island republic available. Drawing on a broad range of documentary sources and on-site research, many of the world's leading specialists on Taiwanese affairs provide in-depth and expert analysis.This unique volume …
Reconstructing Twentieth Century China
Av Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, David Strand
Inbunden, 1998
3430 kr
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This book, the result of a collaborative effort between scholars from Europe, Asia, and the US, argues that the central underlying theme of China's development trajectory in this century is `reconstruction' or jianshe, a keyword in twentieth-century Chinese political discourse. The impulse to …
The Rural-Urban Divide
Economic Disparities and Interactions in China
Av John Knight, Lina Song
Inbunden, 1999
3269 kr
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This book describes and explains the remarkably large rural-urban divide in economic well-being that exists in China. How did it come about? How is it maintained, in the face of equilibrating market forces? What are the implications for future efficiency and equity in the Chinese economy? The book …
The Politics of Lawmaking in Post-Mao China
Institutions, Processes, and Democratic Prospects
Inbunden, 1999
2796 kr
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China's struggle to develop it's legal system is helping to drive an `inadvertant transition' towards democratization in the future. Since Mao Zedong's death, the China Communist Party's (CCP) leaders have increasingly shifted to drafting most of their key policies as laws rather than Party edicts. …
Industrial Reforms and Macroeconomic Instabilty in China
Av Y. y. Kueh, Yak-yeow Kueh m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
3452 kr
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Is the battle against inflation in China now over? Can Zhu Rongji, the economic guru turned Chinese premier who has successfully reduced the skyrocketing inflation of the mid-1990s to a near zero level, while yet maintaining high economic growth through the new millennium, relax? These are the key …
Centre and Provinces: China 1978-93
Power as Non-Zero-Sum
Inbunden, 1998
1225 kr
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Centre and Provinces: China 1978-93 goes beyond the dominant state capacity paradigm to argue for an interactive model to explain the political relations between the central and provincial governments in contemporary China. The uni-dimensional, centrist perspective of the state capacity paradigm …
China: Transition to a Market Economy
Av Chai
Häftad, 1998
695 kr
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At the heart of China's remarkable economic growth is a new economic system, which has emerged out of radical reforms in virtually all areas of economic activity. Understanding this system is the key to understanding the Chinese economy. This book, the culmination of many years of research in Hong …
The Making of the Republican Citizen
Political Ceremonies and Symbols in China 1911-1929
Inbunden, 2000
3744 kr
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What does it mean to be Chinese? How did the major political events of the early 20th century affect the everyday lives of ordinary people in China? This book uses a wealth of new sources, including newspapers, memoirs, interviews, and photographs, to look at the political history of the period and …
The Exemplary Society
Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China
Av Børge Bakken
Inbunden, 2000
6339 kr
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In modern China, technocratic utopias go side by side with moral panics. The modernization process is seen as creating the `disorders' of criminality, sex, and modern youth culture. The official answer to disorder is an exemplary societyan educative and disciplinary society where `human quality' …
Reappraising Republican China
Av Frederic Wakeman, Richard Louis Edmonds
Häftad, 2000
1431 kr
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This book testifies to the accomplishments of Republican studies during the 1980s and early 1990s. Reviewing many aspects of contemporary research, it covers the transition from the late Qing dynasty to the Republic; agricultural development from the mid-1890s to 1937; the political aspects of …
Managing the Chinese Environment
Häftad, 2000
763 kr
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In the coming decades environmental issues will play an increasing role in China's economic development drive, internal politics, legal development, international relations, and regional development issues. While several books have appeared in the 1990s which describe tangible aspects of China's …
Sources of Chinese Economic Growth, 1978-1996
Inbunden, 2000
4546 kr
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This analysis of the political economy of growth in the era of Deng Xiaoping takes issue with the growth-accounting methodologies and market-centred explanations which characterize so much of the literature on transition-era China. By adopting an approach which echoes the pioneering work of …
Central Control and Local Discretion in China
Leadership and Implementation during Post-Mao Decollectivization
Av Jae Ho Chung
Inbunden, 2000
4918 kr
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This book analyses the decollectivization reform in China during the early 1980s in order to gauge the impact of post-Mao decentralization on central control and provincial discretion. The volume challenges the notion that the decision to decentralize administrative authority ipso facto produces …
Towards a Labour Market in China
Av John Knight, Lina Song
Häftad, 2006
786 kr
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China's remarkable economic transition and capacity for dynamic growth has stunned the world. Throughout the period of economic reform, China has been moving towards the creation of a labour market. The scale of this transformation is unprecedented. New economic incentives, vast labour migration, …
The People's Republic of China After 50 Years
Häftad, 2000
711 kr
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Leading scholars in various fields give their views of development in the People's Republic of China since 1949, with emphasis on recent decades. After a broad overview of progress and setbacks, specific topics covered include national political reform, the Chinese Communist Party in power, the …
Mao's Crusade
Politics and Policy Implementation in China's Great Leap Forward
Inbunden, 2001
3907 kr
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During 1957 and 1958 Mao was seized by a vision that the Chinese economy could develop rapidly in leaps and bounds by relying on intuition and mass spontaneity. As a consequence, he single-handedly launched a colossal mobilization campaign called the Great Leap Forward, which featured many radical …
Elections and Democracy in Greater China
Av Larry Diamond, Ramon H. Myers
Häftad, 2001
950 kr
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The authoritarian Chinese regimes governing Taiwan, Mainland China, and Hong Kong allowed limited electoral competition during the last half century. In Taiwan that process evolved over more than three decades before leading to the formation of an opposition party under martial law in late …
Towards a Labour Market in China
Av John Knight, Lina Song
Inbunden, 2005
1431 kr
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Combining remarkable economic transition and dynamic growth, China may well have the most fascinating economy in the world. Over the period of economic reform China has moved from an administered labour system towards the creation of a labour market. The scale of this transformation, involving new …
China's Entrepreneurial Army
Inbunden, 2001
3589 kr
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China's Entrepreneurial Army offers a fascinating insight into the complex interwoven relationship between state power, military burden, and economic prosperity in today's China. From the early 1980s to the end of the 1990s, the People's Liberation Army went into business to make up for falling …
