China Policy Series
About the Book Series
With the rise of China and its impact on the world, interest in China has increased drastically in recent years. This series focuses on policy-oriented research and scholarly works with policy implications, on all aspects of contemporary Chinese economy, politics, society, environment, journalism and cultures. It also covers China’s foreign relations with major international organizations such as the United Nations, World Trade Organization, and World Bank, and major powers such as the United States, European Union (and its member states), Japan and others.
Post-Western Sociology - From China to Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Li Peilin
March 31, 2021
This book is rooted in an epistemological approach to sociology in which the boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies are acknowledged and built on. It argues that knowledge is organised in conceptual spaces linked to paradigms and programmes which in turn are linked to ethnocentred ...
China's Pension Reforms: Political Institutions, Skill Formation and Pension Policy in China
1st Edition
By Ke Meng
December 18, 2020
Existing literature has looked at many factors which have shaped Chinese pension reforms. As China’s pension reform proceeds in an expanding and localising fashion, this book argues that there is a pressing need to examine it in the context of China’s political institutions and economic ...
The Decline of the Western-Centric World and the Emerging New Global Order: Contending Views
1st Edition
Edited
By Yun-han Chu, Yongnian Zheng
November 25, 2020
The Western liberal democratic world order, which seemingly triumphed following the collapse of communism, is looking increasingly fragile as populists and nationalists take power in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, as the momentum of democratization in developing countries stalls, and as ...
China's Authoritarian Path to Development: Is Democratization Possible?
1st Edition
By Liang Tang
December 12, 2019
This book examines the various stages of China’s development, in the economic, social, and political fields, relating theories and models of development to what is actually occurring in China, and discussing how China’s development is likely to progress going forward. It argues that China’s ...
China-Africa Relations: Building Images through Cultural Co-operation, Media Representation, and Communication
1st Edition
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By Kathryn Batchelor, Xiaoling Zhang
December 12, 2019
The recent rapid growth in China’s involvement in Africa is being promoted by both Chinese and African leaders as being conducted in a spirit of cooperation, friendship and equality. In the media and informally, however, a different, less harmonious picture emerges. This book explores how China and...
Foreign Policies toward Taiwan
1st Edition
By Shaohua Hu
December 12, 2019
The issue of Taiwan is the single most difficult factor in the relationship between China and the United States. Any cross-straits conflict between China and Taiwan is likely not only to pit the world’s two leading powers against each other, but also to suck in many other countries. This book ...
The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong: Sharp Power and its Discontents
1st Edition
By Andreas Fulda
August 14, 2019
The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in their quest to liberalise and democratise their respective polities. Taking a long historical perspective, the book compares and contrasts the political ...
China's Global Quest for Resources: Energy, Food and Water
1st Edition
Edited
By Fengshi Wu, Hongzhou Zhang
April 20, 2018
The world’s key resources of energy, food and water, which are closely connected and interdependent on each other, are coming under increasing pressure, as a result of increasing population, development and climate change. In the case of China, following its recent economic surge, energy, food and ...
China's Great Urbanization
1st Edition
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By Zheng Yongnian, Zhao Litao, Sarah Tong
April 20, 2018
China’s extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the proportion of the population living in cities rising from 18% in 1978 to 54% in 2014. Currently the Chinese government has amongst its objectives the target to increase this to 60% by ...
Chinese Politics as Fragmented Authoritarianism: Earthquakes, Energy and Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
April 09, 2018
This book explores how far the concept of fragmented authoritarianism remains valid as the key concept for understanding how the Chinese political process works. It contrasts fragmented authoritarianism, which places bureaucratic bargaining at the centre of policy-making, arguing that the goals and...
China's Transition from Communism – New Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Guoguang Wu, Helen Lansdowne
January 12, 2018
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...
China-Taiwan Rapprochement: The Political Economy of Cross-Straits Relations
1st Edition
By Min-Hua Chiang
January 12, 2018
This book examines how since about 2008 the economy of Taiwan has become ever more deeply integrated into the economy of China. It goes beyond a consideration of trade and investment flows, and discusses also the large population flows, the growing integration of the two financial systems and the ...