Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : China
ISBN : IND:30000117408553
American Journal of Chinese Studies
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American Journal Of Chinese Studies
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A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America
Haihui Zhang
Author : Haihui Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : 0924304723
A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America by Haihui Zhang Pdf
A vital resource for non-Asia specialists in the fields of history, literature, music, economics, sociology, and art looking for a comparative or world-historical perspective on particular questions, including the nature of early modernity, the development of science, or recent trends in the study of early and medieval arts and letters.
China Urbanizes
Shahid Yusuf,Anthony Saich
Author : Shahid Yusuf,Anthony Saich
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821372122
China Urbanizes by Shahid Yusuf,Anthony Saich Pdf
The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban population of 560 million. How China copes with such a large migration flow will strongly influence rural-urban inequality, the pace at which urban centers expand their economic performance, and the urban environment. The growing population will necessitate a big push strategy to maintain a high rate of investment in housing and the urban physical infrastructure and urban services. To finance such expansion will require a significant strengthening and diversification of China's financial system. Growing cities will greatly increase consumption of energy and water. Containing this without at the same time constraining the economic performance of cities or the improvement in the standards of living will call for enlightened policies, strategies, careful urban planning, and significant technological advances. This volume identifies the key developments to watch and discusses the policies which would affect the course as well as the fruitfulness of change.
Ruling a Quarter of Mankind
Paul Tai
Author : Paul Tai
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530844495
Ruling a Quarter of Mankind by Paul Tai Pdf
For nearly a half of the 20th century, Chinese leaders Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong ruled a population accounting for a quarter of mankind. They fought two wars involving millions of soldiers, participated in three epochal revolutions, went through disasters of almost biblical proportions, and confronted imperialist predators threatening to conquer their land. Yet, by 1945, Chiang had elevated China to the world's fourth greatest power; by 1972, Mao had advanced the country further to the third greatest power; and by the mid1970s when they died, they had set the foundation for an emerging superpower in the 21st century. While achieving these deeds, they also committed gross mistakes. Going beyond merely labeling their rule as dictatorship, this book compares thoroughly the two leader's ruling skills. It probes deep into their two primary means of governance, what Mao graphically called, "The Barrel of the Gun and the Barrel of the Pen." It exposes, in detail, their little known supplementary means of governance-a whole arsenal of power plays that are grouped as "the art of the possible." It concludes with a judicious assessment of their accomplishments and failures. Written in a flowing narrative style and with vivid illustrative episodes, this book makes an immensely readable volume.
Welfare for Autocrats
Jennifer Pan
Author : Jennifer Pan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190087449
Welfare for Autocrats by Jennifer Pan Pdf
What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order, or "stability?" In Welfare for Autocrats, Jennifer Pan shows that China has reshaped its major social assistance program, Dibao, around this preoccupation, turning an effort to alleviate poverty into a tool of surveillance and repression. This distortion of Dibao damages perceptions of government competence and legitimacy and can trigger unrest among those denied benefits. Pan traces how China's approach to enforcing order transformed at the turn of the 21st century and identifies a phenomenon she calls seepage whereby one policy--in this case, quelling dissent--alters the allocation of resources and goals of unrelated areas of government. Using novel datasets and a variety of methodologies, Welfare for Autocrats challenges the view that concessions and repression are distinct strategies and departs from the assumption that all tools of repression were originally designed as such. Pan reaches the startling conclusion that China's preoccupation with order not only comes at great human cost but in the case of Dibao may well backfire.
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context
Nathan F. Batto,Chi Huang,Alexander C. Tan,Gary W. Cox
Author : Nathan F. Batto,Chi Huang,Alexander C. Tan,Gary W. Cox
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472119738
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context by Nathan F. Batto,Chi Huang,Alexander C. Tan,Gary W. Cox Pdf
An examination of the ways in which the introduction of mixed-member electoral systems affects the configuration of political parties
Anxious Wealth
John Osburg
Author : John Osburg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804783543
Anxious Wealth by John Osburg Pdf
Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied, and in some instances assisted, wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and government officials. Drawing on his immersive experiences, Osburg invites readers to join him as he journeys through the new, highly gendered entertainment sites for Chinese businessmen, including karaoke clubs, saunas, and massage parlors—places specifically designed to cater to the desires and enjoyment of elite men. Within these spaces, a masculinization of business is taking place. Osburg details the complex code of behavior that governs businessmen as they go about banqueting, drinking, gambling, bribing, exchanging gifts, and obtaining sexual services. These intricate social networks play a key role in generating business, performing social status, and reconfiguring gender roles. But many entrepreneurs feel trapped by their obligations and moral compromises in this evolving environment. Ultimately, Osburg examines their deep ambivalence about China's future and their own complicity in the major issues of post-Mao Chinese society—corruption, inequality, materialism, and loss of trust.
American Studies of Contemporary China
David L. Shambaugh
Author : David L. Shambaugh
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 1563242664
American Studies of Contemporary China by David L. Shambaugh Pdf
Examines the historical evolution of contemporary China studies in the United States, reflecting the growth and maturation of the field since the Communist Party seized power in 1949.
The Concrete Dragon
Thomas J. Campanella
Author : Thomas J. Campanella
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568989488
The Concrete Dragon by Thomas J. Campanella Pdf
China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth has propelled a construction boom unlike anything the world has ever seen, radically transforming both city and countryside in its wake. The speed and scale of China's urban revolution challenges nearly all our expectations about architecture, urbanism and city planning. China's ambition to be a major player on the global stage is written on the skylines of every major city. This is a nation on the rise, and it is building for the record books. China is now home to some of the world's tallest skyscrapers and biggest shopping malls; the longest bridges and largest airport; the most expansive theme parks and gated communities and even the world's largest skateboard park. And by 2020 China's national network of expressways will exceed in length even the American interstate highway system. China's construction industry, employing a workforce equal to the population of California, has been erecting billions of square feet of housing and office space every year. But such extensive development has also meant demolition on a scale unprecedented in the peacetime history of the world. Nearly all of Beijing's centuries-old cityscape has been bulldozed in recent years, and redevelopment in Shanghai has displaced more families than 30 years of urban renewal in the United States. China's cities are also rapidly sprawling across the landscape, churning precious farmland into a landscape of superblock housing estates and single-family subdivisions laced with highways and big-box malls. In a mere generation, China's cities have undergone a metamorphosis that took 150 years to complete in the United States. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World sheds light on this extraordinary chapter in world urban history. The book surveys the driving forces behind the great Chinese building boom, traces the historical precedents and global flows of ideas and information that are fusing to create a bold new Chinese cityscape, and considers the social and environmental impacts of China's urban future. The Concrete Dragon provides a critical overview of contemporary Chinese urbanization in light of both China's past as well as earlier episodes of rapid urban development elsewhere in the world--especially that of the United States, a nation that itself once set global records for the speed and scale of its urban ambitions.
Chinese vs. Western Perspectives
Jinghao Zhou
Author : Jinghao Zhou
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739180464
Chinese vs. Western Perspectives by Jinghao Zhou Pdf
China is on the rise in the globalized world. The relationship between China and the United States has become the most important global issue in the twenty-first century. It is urgent to understand what is happening in China and where China is heading. However, there are many misconceptions about China in the West, which affect Westerners’ ability to objectively understand China, and, ultimately influence the making of foreign policy toward China. The author attempts to challenge the misconceptions coming from both Western societies and China, and offer an integrated picture of contemporary China through systematically examining the major aspects of contemporary Chinese society and culture with the most recent data, and presents convincing arguments in eighteen chapters for spurring mutual understanding between China and the West. The author intends this book to be an interdisciplinary and comprehensive guide to China for a general audience, and it covers a wide variety of topics, including history, family, population, Chinese women, economy, environmental issues, politics, religion, media, U.S.-China relations, and other subjects. This book demonstrates the author’s extensive research and thoughtful examination of many sides of controversial issues related to China with a nice balance of Western and Chinese scholarship. This is one of the few that are authored by scholars who originate from China and have their professional career in the United States, but it is distinctive from the rest of studies on this subject in that the author is committed to examining today’s China from Chinese as well as Western perspectives. This is not only a scholarly book, but also is suitable for general classes on China.
T'oung-pao
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11612692
T'oung-pao by Anonim Pdf
American Journal of Chinese Studies
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015079675206
American Journal of Chinese Studies by Anonim Pdf
Traditional China in Asian and World History
Tansen Sen,Victor H. Mair
Author : Tansen Sen,Victor H. Mair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Aliens
ISBN : 0924304650
Traditional China in Asian and World History by Tansen Sen,Victor H. Mair Pdf
Chronology -- Introduction -- Chinese perceptions of foreigners and foreign lands -- The rise of civilization in the central plains -- The formation and development of the silk routes -- China and the Buddhist world -- China in the age of commerce -- Conclusion
Principles of Comparative Politics
William Roberts Clark,Matt Golder,Sona Nadenichek Golder
Author : William Roberts Clark,Matt Golder,Sona Nadenichek Golder
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506318141
Principles of Comparative Politics by William Roberts Clark,Matt Golder,Sona Nadenichek Golder Pdf
Principles of Comparative Politics offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. In this thoroughly revised Third Edition, students now have an even better guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters. The new edition retains a focus on the enduring questions with which scholars grapple, the issues about which consensus has started to emerge, and the tools comparativists use to get at the complex problems in the field. Among other things, the updates to this edition include a thoroughly-revised chapter on dictatorships that incorporates a discussion of the two fundamental problems of authoritarian rule: authoritarian power-sharing and authoritarian control; a revised chapter on culture and democracy that includes a more extensive examination of cultural modernization theory and a new overview of survey methods for addressing sensitive topics; a new section on issues related to electoral integrity; an expanded assessment of different forms of representation; and a new intuitive take on statistical analyses that provides a clearer explanation of how to interpret regression results. Examples from the gender and politics literature have been incorporated into various chapters, the Problems sections at the end of each chapter have been expanded, a! nd the empirical examples and data on various types of institutions have been updated. Online videos and tutorials are available to address some of the more methodological components discussed in the book. The authors have thoughtfully streamlined chapters to better focus attention on key topics.
Journal of Chinese Studies
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : China
ISBN : UVA:X002553174