China In Transition

Author : Andrew James Nathan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231110235

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China's Transition by Andrew James Nathan Pdf

With more than one billion people, China represents both an ocean of economic opportunity and a frustrating backwater of continuing brutal political repression. What are the prospects for democratic evolution in a nation with one of the world's poorest human rights records? How have other nations responded to China since the recent, dramatic opening of its economic system-and how should they respond in the future? These are some of the most important questions confronting both the United States and the international community. On democracy, human rights, and the move to integrate China into the international economy; on Mao Zedong's regime and the reform since his death; and on the Taiwan experiment and Hong Kong's reintegration with China, Nathan offers an accessible introduction to the intricate web of contemporary Chinese politics and China's changing place in the global system.

Author : Dun Jen Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008921549

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China in Transition, 1517-1911 by Dun Jen Li Pdf

Author : John Friedmann
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816646159

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China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann Pdf

A timely and thorough analysis of the rapid urban growth in China.

Author : Guoguang Wu,Helen Lansdowne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317501206

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China's Transition from Communism - New Perspectives by Guoguang Wu,Helen Lansdowne Pdf

As China moved from a planned to a market economy many people expected that China’s political system would similarly move from authoritarianism to democracy. It is now clear, however, that political liberalisation does not necessarily follow economic liberalisation. This book explores this apparent contradiction, presenting many new perspectives and new thinking on the subject. It considers the path of transition in China historically, makes comparisons with other countries and examines how political culture and the political outlook in China are developing at present. A key feature of the book is the fact that most of the contributors are China-born, Western-trained scholars, who bring deep knowledge and well informed views to the study.

Author : Shoujun Cui,Manuel Pérez García
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137540805

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China and Latin America in Transition by Shoujun Cui,Manuel Pérez García Pdf

This volume explores the policy dynamics, economic commitments and social impacts of the fast evolving Sino-LAC relations. China’s engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean has entered into an era of strategic transition. While China is committed to strengthening its economic and political ties with Latin America and the Caribbean, Latin America as a bloc is enthusiastically echoing China’s endeavor by diverting their focus toward the other side of the ocean. The transitional aspect of China-LAC ties is phenomenal, and is manifested not only in the accelerating momentum of trade, investment, and loan but also in the China-CELAC Forum mechanism that maps out an institutional framework for decades beyond. While Latin America is redefined as an emerging priority to the leadership in Beijing, what are the responses from Latin America and the United States? In this sense, experts from four continents provide local answers to this global question.

Author : Huiyun Feng,Kai He
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131761

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China’s Challenges and International Order Transition by Huiyun Feng,Kai He Pdf

China’s Challenges and International Order Transition introduces an integrated conceptual framework of “international order” categorized by three levels (power, rules, and norms) and three issue-areas (security, political, and economic). Each contributor engages one or more of these analytical dimensions to examine two questions: (1) Has China already challenged this dimension of international order? (2) How will China challenge this dimension of international order in the future? The contested views and perspectives in this volume suggest it is too simple to assume an inevitable conflict between China and the outside world. With different strategies to challenge or reform the many dimensions of international order, China’s role is not a one-way street. It is an interactive process in which the world may change China as much as China may change the world. The aim of the book is to broaden the debate beyond the “Thucydides Trap” perspective currently popular in the West. Rather than offering a single argument, this volume offers a platform for scholars, especially Chinese scholars vs. Western scholars, to exchange and debate their different views and perspectives on China and the potential transition of international order.

Author : Yingyi Qian
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262534246

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How Reform Worked in China by Yingyi Qian Pdf

A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important. As China has transformed itself from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, economists have tried to understand and interpret the success of Chinese reform. As the Chinese economist Yingyi Qian explains, there are two schools of thought on Chinese reform: the “School of Universal Principles,” which ascribes China's successful reform to the workings of the free market, and the “School of Chinese Characteristics,” which holds that China's reform is successful precisely because it did not follow the economics of the market but instead relied on the government. In this book, Qian offers a third perspective, taking certain elements from each school of thought but emphasizing not why reform worked but how it did. Economics is a science, but economic reform is applied science and engineering. To a practitioner, it is more useful to find a feasible reform path than the theoretically best way. The key to understanding how reform has worked in China, Qian argues, is to consider the way reform designs respond to initial historical conditions and contemporary constraints. Qian examines the role of “transitional institutions”—not “best practice institutions” but “incentive-compatible institutions”—in Chinese reform; the dual-track approach to market liberalization; the ownership of firms, viewed both theoretically and empirically; government decentralization, offering and testing hypotheses about its link to local economic development; and the specific historical conditions of China's regional-based central planning.

Author : Steve Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134069835

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China, the US and the Power-Transition Theory by Steve Chan Pdf

This volume analyzes the extent of ongoing power shifts among the leading powers, exploring the portents for their future growth, and seeking indicators of their relative commitment to the existing international order.

Author : Yaowei Zhu,Yiu-Wai Chu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438446455

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Lost in Transition by Yaowei Zhu,Yiu-Wai Chu Pdf

Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.

Author : Yun Chen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0754648346

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Transition and Development in China by Yun Chen Pdf

China's transition from a planned economy to a market economy has succeeded in producing more than a decade of phenomenal growth. How the difficult task of balancing the diverse array of often competing concerns has been achieved is the subject of this book, which examines the dismantling of the centrally planned system and the mechanism of institutional change in Chinese transition

Author : Douglas Besharov,Karen Baehler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199990337

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Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition by Douglas Besharov,Karen Baehler Pdf

The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China's central government went a long way toward consolidating the social policy framework that had gradually emerged in piecemeal fashion during the initial phases of economic liberalization. Major policy decisions during the focal period included adopting a single national pension plan for urban areas, standardizing unemployment insurance, (re)establishing nationwide rural health care coverage, opening urban education systems to children of rural migrants, introducing trilingual education policies in ethnic minority regions, expanding college enrolment, addressing the challenge of HIV/AIDS more comprehensively, and equalizing social welfare spending across provinces, among others. Unresolved is the direction of policy in the face of longer-term industrial and demographic trends---and the possibility of a chronically weak global economy. Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition offers scholars, practitioners, students, and policymakers a foundation from which to explore those issues based on a composite snapshot of Chinese social policy at its point of greatest maturation prior to the 2007 global crisis.

Author : Yinxing Hong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789812878434

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The China Path to Economic Transition and Development by Yinxing Hong Pdf

This book by the renowned Chinese scholar Dr. Yinxing Hong provides the reader with a perceptive analysis of what has worked in China’s development model. Over the past 30 years, China has experienced a remarkable economic rise, but it now faces the challenge of switching the drivers of this economic growth, which have proven so successful. The path has not been an easy one, and many challenges lie ahead. However, the rise of the Chinese economy has been the most significant global development in recent years. Is there a specific Chinese model? How was the Chinese transition, from a Soviet-style economic structure to one that is more open to market influences and the global market, achieved? In 15 essays, Dr. Hong provides fascinating insights to these and other key questions. The essays cover the challenges involved in transition and how the market-oriented reforms progressed; what the consequences of the transition were for public goods provision and how China opened up its economic system. The essays in Part II address the remaining challenges facing rural areas trying to develop a more consumer-driven economic base, and how to effectively modify the model of economic development. This book provides a sound basis for policymakers and scholars alike, as well as anyone who wants to get an insider’s view of the progress and challenges faced by China’s economic development.

Author : Xinxin Ma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811319877

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Economic Transition and Labor Market Reform in China by Xinxin Ma Pdf

This book empirically investigates the changes in labor market structure accompanying the labor market reform in China by focusing on the labor market segmentation problems from the 1980s to 2013. The book also aims to examine the effect of labor policy reforms on individual, household and enterprise behavior, including the causes and consequences of labor market reform in China, particularly the influences of labor policy reforms on labor market performance. Offering valuable insights into the changing structure of the Chinese economy, this book will be of interest to scholars, activists, and economists.

Author : Tim Oakes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134659999

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Tourism and Modernity in China by Tim Oakes Pdf

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 uses the province of Guizhou to examine the Chinese tourist industry as an example of the state's modernization policies and how local people have engaged with these changes.

Author : Debra E. Soled
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015031857371

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China by Debra E. Soled Pdf

China: A Nation in Transition provides a broad survey of Chinese history as well as topical analyses of the People's Republic. The contributors to this volume -- all specialists from the ranks of academia and the U.S. government -- analyze the country's contemporary political, economic, social, military, and foreign policy scenes against the backdrop of Chinese history. Charts and tables, a chronology of major events (1949-1992), key documents, and short biographies of key leaders enhance this reference.