Chinese Studies

This book examines information and public opinion control by the authoritarian state in response to popular access to information and upgraded political communication channels among the citizens in contemporary China. The chapters originally published as articles in the Journal of Contemporary China..

China's economy is now comfortably among the world's elite in terms of size. This book examines the contemporary Chinese economy, focusing on the production, appropriation, and distribution of surplus value...

China's economy is now comfortably among the world's elite in terms of size. This book examines the contemporary Chinese economy, focusing on the production, appropriation, and distribution of surplus value...

Based on extensive research, this book makes a novel contribution to the study of citizenship by examining how individuals at the margins of Chinese society deal with state efforts to transform them into model citizens...

What are these key foreign policy adjustments? Where and how have these occurred in Chinese diplomacy? And what are the reasons or drivers that inform these changes? This book seeks to capture these changes. Featuring contributions from academics, think-tank intellectuals and policy practitioners, a..

The book shows how the Chinese minority is much more diverse, and the picture much richer and more complicated, than previous studies have allowed. Subjects covered include the historical development of Chinese communities in peripheral areas of Indonesia, the religious practices of Chinese Indonesi..

This book assesses the changing role of its markets and managers in the PRC and examines the next steps in the evolution of its management theory and practice._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review...

Five years have elapsed since the Chinese government announced its ambitious health care reform programme. Having had three trillion RMB invested into it in this time, this landmark reform stands out as one of the biggest health policy interventions in modern history in terms of both scale and scope..

Five years have elapsed since the Chinese government announced its ambitious health care reform programme. Having had three trillion RMB invested into it in this time, this landmark reform stands out as one of the biggest health policy interventions in modern history in terms of both scale and scope..

Since the beginning of China’s economic reform in 1978, private manufacturing firms have played an indispensable role in, and have made a remarkable contribution to, the country’s economic development. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the current development challenges for C..

There is growing interest in social transformation in contemporary China, with much work published on the subject. This book is different from other books in that it presents an overview of the work of Chinese sociologists on how Chinese society is changing. It reports on a great deal of original re..

Presents a study of social spaces of the capital of Ming Qing China (1420-1911). Focusing on early Ming and early and middle Qing, it explores architectural, urban and geographical space of Beijing...