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.
E-Government in China: Technology, Power and Local Government Reform
1st Edition
By Jesper Schlæger
December 07, 2015
This book looks at how information and communication technology and e-government influences power relations in public administration in China. It highlights the role of technology in combating corruption, and clarifies the interplay between ideas, institutions and technologies in shaping the ...
China's Social Development and Policy: Into the next stage?
1st Edition
Edited
By Zhao Litao
September 29, 2015
In China, social development has fallen far behind economic development. This book looks at why this is the case, and poses the question of whether the conditions, structures and institutions that have locked China into unbalanced development are changing to pave the way for the next stage of ...
China and the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisheng Dong, Zhengxu Wang, Henk Dekker
July 22, 2015
The European Union is China’s largest trading partner, and Chinese views of the EU are of crucial importance in shaping how the relationship will develop in the future, especially as the new Chinese leadership takes power. This book presents the findings of an extensive research project into the ...
China and the International System: Becoming a World Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Xiaoming Huang, Robert Patman
July 22, 2015
This book considers the evolving relationship between China and the international system, and the interaction between a China of profound change in its identity, capability, and influence, and an international system that is itself experiencing a process of far-reaching transformation. It develops ...
New Dynamics in Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations: How Far Can the Rapprochement Go?
1st Edition
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By Weixing Hu
July 22, 2015
Relations between mainland China and Taiwan have improved markedly in recent years, giving rise to the key question, How far can the current rapprochement go? This book focuses on how mainland China-Taiwan relations are likely to develop in future. It considers economic relations, including the ...
Socialist China, Capitalist China: Social tension and political adaptation under economic globalization
1st Edition
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By Guoguang Wu, Helen Lansdowne
November 10, 2014
China is currently encountering increasing social problems, together with the rise of mass discontent and public protest, despite having achieved enormous economic growth after nearly thirty years of market socialism and embracing globalization. The future of China thus depends not only on the ...
Legitimating the Chinese Communist Party Since Tiananmen: A Critical Analysis of the Stability Discourse
1st Edition
By Peter Sandby-Thomas
September 11, 2014
The dominant view concerning the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is that it is simply a matter of time before it comes to an end. This view has been dominant since the pro-democracy protests in 1989 and has only been strengthened by the increasing number of protests in recent years. ...
China's Challenges to Human Security: Foreign Relations and Global Implications
1st Edition
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By Guoguang Wu
June 19, 2014
This book looks at human security in China’s foreign relations. It discusses the concept and theory of human security, and their implications for China. The book goes on to analyse environmental security issues, including climate change and water resources, as well as looking at issues from an...
China's Internal and International Migration
1st Edition
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By Li Peilin, Laurence Roulleau-Berger
June 19, 2014
One consequence of China’s economic growth has been a massive increase in migration, both internal and external. Within China millions of rural workers have migrated to the cities. Outside China, many Chinese have migrated to other parts of the world, their remittances home often having a ...
Governing Health in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Yanzhong Huang
June 19, 2014
The lack of significant improvement in people’s health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country’s internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in the ...
Higher Education Reform in China: Beyond the Expansion
1st Edition
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By W. John Morgan, Bin Wu
October 25, 2013
A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade – China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income ...
China Engages Global Governance: A New World Order in the Making?
1st Edition
By Gerald Chan, Pak K. Lee, Lai-Ha Chan
October 03, 2013
This book focuses on China’s increasing involvement in global governance as a result of the phenomenal rise of its economy and global power. It examines whether and in what ways China is capable of participating in multilateral interactions; if it is willing and able to provide global public goods ...