China Policy Series

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1. Zhao Ziyang and China's Political Future

   Edited by Guoguang Wu, Helen Lansdowne

   Series: China Policy Series

   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...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State

   Edited by Keun Lee, Joon-Han Kim, Wing Thye Woo

   Series: China Policy Series

   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...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. China's Climate Policy

   By Gang Chen

   Series: China Policy Series

   To understand China’s climate change policy is not easy, as the country itself is a paradox actor in global climate political economy: it used to take very suspicious stand on the scientific certainty of climate change, but recently it has become a signatory and firm supporter of the...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Hainan - State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province

   By Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

   Series: China Policy Series

   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...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution

   Social changes and state responses

   Edited by Xiaoling Zhang, Yongnian Zheng

   Series: China Policy Series

   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...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. China's Trade Unions - How Autonomous Are They?

   A Survey of 1811 Enterprise Union Chairpersons

   By Masaharu Hishida, Kazuko Kojima, Tomoaki Ishii, Jian Qiao

   Series: China Policy Series

   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,...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. China and International Relations

   The Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu

   Edited by Zheng Yongnian

   Series: China Policy Series

   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...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. China's Soft Power and International Relations

   Edited by Hongyi Lai, Yiyi Lu

   Series: China Policy Series

   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...

   Published April 1st 2012 by Routledge
9. China's Rise in the World ICT Industry

   Industrial Strategies and the Catch-Up Development Model

   By Lutao Ning

   Series: China Policy Series

   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...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Challenge of Labour in China

    Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories

    By Chris King-chi Chan

    Series: China Policy Series

    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...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge