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.
China's Soft Power and International Relations
1st Edition
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By Hongyi Lai, Yiyi Lu
October 03, 2013
China’s soft power has attracted considerable attention in the recent decade. In this volume scholars from the U.K., Europe, the U.S., Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and mainland China, including a number of well established and well known analysts on China, examine main areas where China has made...
Political Culture and Participation in Rural China
1st Edition
By Yang Zhong
October 03, 2013
Despite China’s rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, most Chinese still live in the vast countryside or have rural household registration. Although there was significant economic improvement in rural areas in the 1980s, the rural economy has been stagnating or deteriorating since then, and the...
The Institutional Dynamics of China's Great Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Xiaoming Huang
October 03, 2013
This book examines the role of institutions in China’s recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. The book argues that, although the importance of institutions in China’s rapid economic growth and social development over the past 30 years is widely acknowledged, exactly how ...
The Impact of China's 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Philippe Béja
February 13, 2013
This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics. In her extensive account, Eva Pils shows how these practitioners are important as legal advocates for victims of injustice and how bureaucratic systems of control operate to subdue and marginalise ...
Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State
1st Edition
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By Keun Lee, Joon-Han Kim, Wing Thye Woo
October 10, 2012
Since the start of the 21st century China has risen to the status of an important world power. This book examines Chinese power, focusing in particular, although not exclusively, on its economic capabilities, and considering how this is likely to develop in the future. It provides a detailed ...
Zhao Ziyang and China's Political Future
1st Edition
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By Guoguang Wu, Helen Lansdowne
September 18, 2012
What legacies have previous reformers like Zhao Ziyang left to today’s China? Does China have feasible political alternatives to today’s repressive ‘market Leninism’ and corrupt ‘state capitalism’? Does Zhao’s legacy indicate an alternative to the past and for the future? For those who are ...
China and International Relations: The Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu
1st Edition
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By Zheng Yongnian
April 10, 2012
Despite Beijing’s repeated assurance that China’s rise will be "peaceful", the United States, Japan and the European Union as well as many of China's Asian neighbours feel uneasy about the rise of China. Although China’s rise could be seen as inevitable, it remains uncertain as to how a politically...
China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Social changes and state responses
1st Edition
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By Xiaoling Zhang, Yongnian Zheng
April 10, 2012
In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world’s largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China...
China's Trade Unions - How Autonomous Are They?: A Survey of 1811 Enterprise Union Chairpersons
1st Edition
By Masaharu Hishida, Kazuko Kojima, Tomoaki Ishii, Jian Qiao
April 10, 2012
This book examines the status of trade unions in contemporary China, exploring the degree to which trade unions have been reformed as China is increasingly integrated into the global economy, and discussing the key question of how autonomous China’s trade unions are. Based on an extensive, ...
Hainan - State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province
1st Edition
By Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
April 05, 2012
This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan. This island, for many years a provincial backwater, was given provincial rank in 1988 and became the testing ground for experiments of an ...
The Challenge of Labour in China: Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories
1st Edition
By Chris King-chi Chan
March 29, 2012
China’s economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in the export industries. In recent years, however, there has been growing concern about wages and labour standards in China. This book examines how wages are bargained, fought over and determined in China, by ...
China's Rise in the World ICT Industry: Industrial Strategies and the Catch-Up Development Model
1st Edition
By Lutao Ning
March 28, 2012
One of the most striking phenomena of China’s remarkable economic growth is that its huge volume of exports are becoming high-tech. China is now the world's largest Information and Communication Technology (ICT) exporter, having overtaken Japan and the European Union in 2003 and the United States ...