The Belt Road and Beyond

The Belt Road and Beyond
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781108479561
ISBN-13 : 1108479561
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Belt Road and Beyond by : Min Ye

This investigation uses state-mobilized globalization as a framework to understand China's capitalism and emergence as a global power.

The Political Economy of China's Provinces

The Political Economy of China's Provinces
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781134621002
ISBN-13 : 1134621000
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Economy of China's Provinces by : Hans Hendrischke

Traditionally, political scientists and economists have seen China as a single entity and business people have seen China as a single market. This book challenges the notion of a centralised and unified China, and outlines how provinces are taking on new economic and political roles, forced upon them by decentralisation.It is the most thorough data on contemporary Chinese provinces available and will be of great interest to researchers and graduate students of politics, economics and business as well as Asian studies.

The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China

The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9789811650253
ISBN-13 : 981165025X
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China by : Jiwei Qian

This book explores the institutional factors in social policymaking and implementation in China. From the performance evaluation system for local cadres to the intergovernmental fiscal system, local policy experimentation, logrolling among government departments, and the “top-level” design, there are a number of factors that make policy in China less than straightforward. The book argues that it is bureaucratic incentive structure lead to a fragmented and stratified welfare system in China. Using a variety of Chinese- and English-language sources, including central and local government documents, budgetary data, household surveys, media databases, etc., this book covers the development of China’s pensions, health insurance, unemployment insurance, and social assistance programs since the 1990s, with a focus on initiatives since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing a deeper understanding of policymaking and implementation in China, this book interests scholars of public administration, political economy, Asian politics, and social development.

Power over Property

Power over Property
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 359
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ISBN-10 : 9780472127108
ISBN-13 : 0472127101
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Power over Property by : Matthew Noellert

Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent the next three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one-third of the world’s peasants. This book presents a new perspective on the first step of this reform, when the CCP helped redistribute over 40 million hectares of land to over three hundred million impoverished peasants in the nationwide land reform movement. This land reform, the founding myth of the People’s Republic of China (1949–present) and one of the largest redistributions of wealth and power in history, embodies the idea that an equal distribution of property will lead to social and political equality. Power Over Property argues that in practice, however, the opposite occurred: the redistribution of political power led to a more equal distribution of property. China’s land reform was accomplished not only through the state’s power to define the distribution of resources, but also through village communities prioritizing political entitlements above property rights. Through the systematic analysis of never-before studied micro-level data on practices of land reform in over five hundred villages, Power Over Property demonstrates how land reform primarily involved the removal of former power holders, the mobilization of mass political participation, and the creation of a new social-political hierarchy. Only after accomplishing all of this was it possible to redistribute land. This redistribution, moreover, was determined by political relations to a new structure of power, not just economic relations to the means of production. The experience of China’s land reform complicates our understanding of the relations between economic, social, and political equality. On the one hand, social equality in China was achieved through political, not economic means. On the other hand, the fundamental solution was a more effective hierarchy of fair entitlements, not equal rights. This book ultimately suggests that focusing on economic equality alone may obscure more important social and political dynamics in the development of the modern world.

The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations in the New Millennium

The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations in the New Millennium
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9781317214076
ISBN-13 : 1317214072
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations in the New Millennium by : Margaret Myers

In this book, China-Latin America relations experts Margaret Myers and Carol Wise examine the political and economic forces that have underpinned Chinese engagement in the region, as well as the ways in which these forces have shaped economic sectors and policy-making in Latin America. The contributors begin with a review of developments in cross-Pacific statecraft, including the role of private, state-level, sub-national, and extra-regional actors that have influenced China-Latin America engagement in recent years. Part two of the book examines the variety of Latin American development trajectories borne of China’s growing global presence. Contributors analyse the effects of Chinese engagement on specific economic sectors, clusters (the LAC emerging economies), and sub-regions (Central America, the Southern Cone of South America, and the Andean region). Individual case studies draw out these themes. This volume is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on China-Latin America relations. It illuminates the complex interplay between economics and politics that has characterized China’s relations with the region as a second decade of enhanced economic engagement draws to a close. This volume is an indispensable read for students, scholars and policy makers wishing to gain new insights into the political economy of China-Latin America relations.

China’s Regions in an Era of Globalization

China’s Regions in an Era of Globalization
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 147
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ISBN-10 : 9781134818396
ISBN-13 : 1134818394
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis China’s Regions in an Era of Globalization by : Tim Summers

The rise of China has been shaped and driven by its engagement with the global economy during a period of intensified globalization, yet China is a continent-sized economy and society with substantial diversity across its different regions. This means that its engagement with the global economy cannot just be understood at the national level, but requires analysis of the differences in participation in the global economy across China’s regions. This book responds to this challenge by looking at the development of China’s regions in this era of globalization. It traces the evolution of regional policy in China and its implications in a global context. Detailed chapters examine the global trajectory of what is now becoming known as the Greater Bay Area in southern China, the globalization of the inland mega-city of Chongqing, and the role of China’s regions in the globally-focused belt and road initiative launched by the Chinese government in late 2013. The book will be of interest to practitioners and scholars engaging with contemporary China’s political economy and international relations.

Globalizing Patient Capital

Globalizing Patient Capital
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 411
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ISBN-10 : 9781107182318
ISBN-13 : 110718231X
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Globalizing Patient Capital by : Stephen B. Kaplan

Examines China's overseas financial investments in the developing world, and its impact on national economic policymaking in the Americas.

China's Geography

China's Geography
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9781538140819
ISBN-13 : 1538140810
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis China's Geography by : Gregory Veeck

Despite China's clear and growing importance on the world stage, it remains often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey, the most current and authoritative introduction available, vividly illustrates. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this text traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across both time and space. Beginning with China's diverse landscapes and environments, and continuing through its formative history and tumultuous recent past, the authors show contemporary China as a product of both internal and external forces. They consider historical and current successes and difficulties, including economic, political, cultural, and environmental challenges, while placing China in its international context as a massive, developing, diverse nation that is meeting the needs of its 1.4 billion citizens while becoming an aggressive major regional and global player. Through clear prose and 160 insightful maps, tables, and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the great economic, political, and social differences found throughout China's many regions. Accompanying the book is a companion website that provides a wealth of additional materials, including sample lectures, color versions of all the graphics, time series and provincial data files for student projects in Excel, lists of favorite films and websites, and public domain maps for student use.

Incentivized Development in China

Incentivized Development in China
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781107166295
ISBN-13 : 1107166292
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Incentivized Development in China by : David J. Bulman

County-level fieldwork and unique data demonstrate how leadership and career incentives explain regional variation in China's economic development.

The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China

The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 411
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ISBN-10 : 9780520912212
ISBN-13 : 0520912217
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China by : Susan L. Shirk

In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more flexible and less centralized than their Soviet counterparts were. Shirk pioneers a rational choice institutional approach to analyze policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country and to explain the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on extensive interviews with high-level Chinese officials, she pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions and shows how the political logic of Chinese communist institutions shaped those decisions. Combining theoretical ambition with the flavor of on-the-ground policy-making in Beijing, this book is a major contribution to the study of reform in China and other communist countries. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chine