Download or read book Discontented Miracle written by Dali L. Yang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has been enjoying stellar economic growth for more than a quarter of a century. Yet the rapid growth amid market-oriented reforms has not been an unalloyed blessing. The OC China MiracleOCO has been accompanied by soaring income inequality and rising social tensions, over-taxing ChinaOCOs resource base and contributing to an environmental crisis. Despite substantial improvement in the standard of living and other social indicators, ChinaOCOs leaders have, in the aftermath of the Tiananmen crackdown, steadfastly held back the opening up of the political system. In this volume, contributors from the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology examine how existing institutions, broadly defined, might have exacerbated tensions in China''s evolving economy, society and polity as well as how institutional developments have been introduced to deal with existing or emerging conflicts and tensions."
Download or read book Bounding the Mekong written by Jim Glassman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational economic integration has been described by globalization boosters as a rising tide that will lift all boats, an opportunity for all participants to achieve greater prosperity through a combination of political cooperation and capitalist economic competition. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has championed such rhetoric in promoting the integration of China, Southeast Asia’s formerly socialist states, and Thailand into a regional project called the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). But while the GMS project is in fact hastening regional economic integration, Jim Glassman shows that the approach belies the ADB’s idealized description of "win-win" outcomes. The process of "actually existing globalization" in the GMS does provide varied opportunities for different actors, but it is less a rising tide that lifts all boats than an uneven flood of transnational capitalist development whose outcomes are determined by intense class struggles, market competition, and regulatory battles. Glassman makes the case for adopting a class-based approach to analysis of GMS development, regionalization, and actually existing globalization. First he analyzes the interests and actions of various Thai participants in GMS development, then the roles of different Chinese actors in GMS integration. He next provides two cases illustrating the serious limits of any notion that GMS integration is a relatively egalitarian process—Laos’ participation in GMS development and the role of migrant Burmese workers in the production of the GMS. He finds that Burmese migrant workers, dam-displaced Chinese and Laotian villagers, and economically-stressed Thai farmers and small businesses are relative "losers" compared to the powerful business interests that shape GMS integration from locations like Bangkok and Kunming, as well as key sites outside the GMS like Beijing, Singapore, and Tokyo. The final chapter blends geographical-historical analysis with an assessment of uneven development and actually existing globalization in the GMS. Cogent and persuasive, Bounding the Mekong will attract attention from the growing number of scholars analyzing globalization, neoliberalism, regionalization, and multiple scales of governance. It is suitable for graduate courses in geography, political science, and sociology as well as courses with a regional focus.
Download or read book Chinese Society written by Elizabeth J. Perry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance & protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. It draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history & political science, & covers issues including women, labour, ethnic conflict & suicide.
Download or read book A Poetic Discontent written by Robert Titley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titley examines two of Austin Farrer's major texts : his 1948 Bampton Lectures, published as The Glass of Vision, and his A Study in St Mark (1951).
Download or read book Media Transparency in China written by Baohui Xie and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the gap between the official transparency rhetoric and the censorship reality has demonstrated the discrepancy between what the Party is and what it claims to be. Such a discrepancy is manifested by the reality that the reformed news industry, a hybrid of market-oriented commercialization and party-state control, has largely failed to deliver either the voice of the disenfranchised groups or the value of journalism. To observe the discrepancy, this book investigates the role of transparency in the Chinese news media. Media transparency, which goes beyond the issue of censorship and press freedom, has been undermined by the consensus reached between the party-state and the media on political and market control. It is this mutually accommodating and benefiting scheme between power and profits that has been hollowing out the substance of the transparency rhetoric and distorting the Marxist idea of press freedom as freedom for all. This book argues that the cause of such a gap between rhetoric and reality is rooted in the disjuncture of political representation of both the party-state and the profit-seeking media.
Download or read book China s Reforms at 30 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oil and Gas in China written by Tai-Wei Lim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title looks at the emergence of China as a major importer and consumer of energy. It examines the Chinese oil industry from a cross-disciplinary political economy as well as an international relations perspective.
Download or read book Dams Migration and Authoritarianism in China written by Sabrina Habich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past studies on the Chinese state point towards the inherent adaptability, effectiveness and overall stability of authoritarian rule in China. The key question addressed here is how this adaptive capacity plays out at the local level in China, clarifying the extent to which local state actors are able to shape local processes of policy implementation. This book studies the evolution of dam-induced resettlement policy in China, based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Yunnan province. It shows that local governments at the lowest administrative levels are caught in a double bind, facing strong top-down pressures in the important policy field of hydropower development, while simultaneously having to handle growing social pressure from local communities affected by resettlement policies. In doing so, the book questions the widespread assumption that the observed longevity and resilience of China’s authoritarian regime is to a large extent due to the high degree of flexibility that has been granted to local governments in the course of the reform period. The research extends beyond previous analyses of policy implementation by focusing on the state, on society and the ways in which they interact, as well as by examining what happens when policy implementation is interrupted. Analysing the application of resettlement policies in contemporary China, with a focus on the multiple constraints that Chinese local states face, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Political Science, Chinese Studies and Sociology.
Download or read book China as Number One written by Yang Zhong and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant global events in the last forty years has been the rise of China— economically, technologically, politically, and militarily. The question on people's minds for decades has been whether China will replace the United States as a superpower in the near future. But for China, this power must be comprehensive — having strong economic and militant forces are only two pieces of the puzzle. China must also possess soft power, such as attractive ideologies, values, and culture. China as Number One? explores China’s soft powers through the eyes of Chinese citizens. Utilizing data from the World Values Survey, the contributors to this collection analyze the potential soft power of a rising China by examining its residents' social values. A comprehensive study of changes and continuities in the political and social values of Chinese citizens, the book examines findings in the context of evolutionary modernization theory and cross-national comparison.
Download or read book China Engages Global Governance written by Gerald Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to address a wide array of global problems; and what impact this would have on both global governance and order. The book provides a comprehensive assessment of China’s increasing influence over how world affairs are being managed; how far China, with increasing clout, interacts with other major powers in global governance, and what the consequences and implications are for the evolving global system and world order. This book is the first to explore China’s engagement with global governance in traditional and new securities.
Download or read book Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam written by A. Wells-Dang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings a fresh, original approach to understand social action in China and Vietnam through the conceptual lens of informal environmental and health networks. It shows how citizens in non-democratic states actively create informal pathways for advocacy and the development of functioning civil societies.
Download or read book Migration and Social Protection in China written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Risk Communication in China written by Jia Dai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of media is becoming increasingly important as globalization has developed. Given fast social transformation and technological development in China, the consequent environmental and health risks demand citizens integrate the communication and prevention of such risks as a significant part of their daily life. This book systematically discusses the communication process of typical environmental risk issues, and the complex interaction among multiple actors, including the public, media, experts, non-governmental organizations, and government in contemporary China. From a media-centered perspective, it applies major theories in the field of environmental and risk communication, and uses a variety of empirical research methods to unravel the complicated and unique experience of communication and governance. Combining theoretical reflections with real-life examples of Chinese scenarios, the authors not only encourage a dialogue between Western and Chinese academia but also inspire students and practitioners to apply risk communication theories to solving real-life problems. The book will appeal to students, scholars, and practitioners of risk and environmental communication studies.
Download or read book Illicit Industries and China s Shadow Economy written by Victor Teo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers a wide range of illicit industries in China, exploring what drives such activities, why consumers tolerate them to differing degrees, how attempts to regulate them are implemented and how such regulation is resisted. Industries considered include human smuggling, human organs trade, illicit pharmaceuticals, smuggling of animal parts, illegal logging and trade of woods, food safety and shadow banking. Throughout, the book describes how the shadow economy works, analyses the degree to which illicit activities are regarded as criminal and highlights the importance of the shadow economy for certain regions of China and certain sections of Chinese society. In doing so, it reveals the challenges of human security posed by these industries not only for China, but also for the global community, and considers a robust governance mechanism at both national and global levels to address these challenges. Overall, the book provides a very rich picture of a key aspect of China’s contemporary economy which is difficult to research.
Download or read book China and the Global Economic Crisis written by Yongnian Zheng and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. China's economy 2008 and outlook for 2009 : crisis of a sharp slowdown / John Wong -- 2. Recession averted? China's domestic response to the global financial crisis / Yang Mu and Lim Tin Seng -- 3. China's decisive response to the economic crisis bears fruits / Sarah Y. Tong -- 4. Pearl River Delta in a crisis of industrialisation / Huang Yanjie and Chen Shaofeng -- 5. Impact of the global economic crisis on the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta regions / Yu Hong -- 6. Taiwan's economy in the financial crisis and its outlook / Zhao Hong -- 7. Hong Kong's economy on the road to recovery? / Zhang Yang -- 8. Financial crisis offers respite for the Macao economy / Zhang Yang and Fung Kwan -- 9. China's trade prospects and China-ASEAN trade relations / Sarah Y. Tong and Chong Siew Keng -- 10. Sino-South Korean bilateral trade in the current economic crisis / Zhou Shengqi -- 11. Ascendance of China's new left amidst the global ginancial crisis / Bo Zhiyue and Chen Gang -- 12. Will social stability in China be undermined in the financial crisis? / Zhao Litao and Huang Yanjie -- 13. The international financial crisis and China's external response / Zheng Yongnian and Lye Liang Fook
Download or read book Investigative Journalism Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China written by J. Tong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society.
Download or read book Regulation in Asia written by John Gillespie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike much analysis about regulation in Asia which focuses on globalisation and the transplant effect, leaving domestic influence over commercial regulation under-researched and under-theorized, this book focuses on how local actors influence regulatory change. It explores the complex economic and regulatory factors that generate social demand for state regulation and shows how local networks, courts, democratic processes and civil society have a huge influence on regulatory systems. It examines the particular circumstances in a wide range of Asian countries, provides transnational comparisons and comparisons with Western countries, and assesses how far local regulatory regimes increase economic value and convey competitive advantages.
