China's Education and the Industrialised World

Studies in Cultural Transfer

by Ruth Hayhoe & Marianne Bastid

<p>This book, first published in 1987, studies the practical and intellectual import of China's educational relations with the industrialised West, the Soviet Union and Japan. On the practical level, it provides a broad historical and ...

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China's Energy Security

A Multidimensional Perspective

by Giulia C Romano & Jean-Francois Meglio

<p>A secure supply of energy is essential for all nations, to sustain their economy, and indeed their very survival. This subject is especially important in the case of China, as China’s booming economy and consequent demand for energy is ...

ISBN: 9781317428565

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China's Generation Gap

by Jiaming Sun & Dongmei Cheng

<p>Based on data collected for the <em>Generation Gap Survey</em> in Shanghai and updated to take into account contemporary trends, this book uses an empirical approach to study the generation gap in China. It covers various aspects of life from

ISBN: 9781317235972

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China's Global Political Economy

Managerial Perspectives

by Robert Taylor & Jacques Jaussaud

<p>Much has been written about China’s economy, as well as its business management system. <em>China's Global Political Economy,</em> however, is designed to bring together these two perspectives, serving to enhance our understanding of China’s ...

ISBN: 9781351592437

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China's Global Quest for Resources

Energy, Food and Water

by Fengshi Wu & Hongzhou Zhang

<p>The world’s key resources of energy, food and water, which are closely connected and interdependent on each other, are coming under increasing pressure, as a result of increasing population, development and climate change. In the case of ...

ISBN: 9781317373537

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China's Governance Model

Flexibility and Durability of Pragmatic Authoritarianism

by Hongyi Lai

<p>Many studies of government in China either simply describe the political institutions or else focus, critically, on the weaknesses of the system, such as corruption or the absence of Western-style democracy. Authors of these studies fail to ...

ISBN: 9781317859512

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China's Great Urbanization

by Zheng Yongnian, Zhao Litao & Sarah Y. Tong

<p>China’s extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the proportion of the population living in cities rising from 18% in 1978 to 54% in 2014. Currently the Chinese government has ...

ISBN: 9781317373476

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China's Housing Middle Class

Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities

by Beibei Tang

<p>Home ownership plays a significant role in locating the middle class in most western societies, associated with market, consumerism, democracy and “people like us”, the significant features of the middle class for any society. In China, ...

ISBN: 9781351630023

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China's Military Procurement in the Reform Era

The Setting of New Directions

by Yoram Evron

<p>The decisions that shape the policy of weapons procurement are an important area of national security policy. This is all the more true for China, which during recent decades has vacillated between different sources and directions of military

ISBN: 9781317478935

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China's New Public Health Insurance

Challenges to Health Reforms and the New Rural Co-operative Medical System

by Armin Müller

<p>Especially since the 2003 SARS crisis, China’s healthcare system has become a growing source of concern, both for citizens and the Chinese government. China’s once praised public health services have deteriorated into a system driven by ...

ISBN: 9781317230045

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China's New Silk Road

An Emerging World Order

by Carmen Amado Mendes

<p>Much is being written about China’s new 'One Belt, One Road' initiative, but much of the writing focuses on China itself, on the destinations of the road – Europe and the Middle East – or on the countries through which the road passes, such ...

ISBN: 9781351134330

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China's Relations with Central and Eastern Europe

From "Old Comrades" to New Partners

by Weiqing Song

<p>As China rises as an economic and an international power, new relationships are being forged with all areas of the world including Central and Eastern Europe. This book explores how this relationship is developing. It considers how China’s ...

ISBN: 9781351850742

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China's Rural Areas

Building a Moderately Prosperous Society

by China Development Research Foundation

<p>The prosperity of China’s people has advanced very much in recent decades. However, in many respects China is still a developing country, and this is especially true of rural areas where economic progress has not been as marked as in urban ...

ISBN: 9781351784832

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China's Schools in Flux

Report by the State Education Leaders Delegation, National Committee on United States-China Relations

by Ronald N. Montaperto & Jay Henderson

<p>This book, first published in 1979, is the detailed study that arose from the visit of the US State Education Leaders Delegation to China in 1977. This visit observed and discussed the new directions in China's schools; the delegation was led

ISBN: 9781351379298

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China's Social Policy

Transformation and Challenges

by Kinglun Ngok & Chak Kwan Chan

<p>This book critically and comprehensively examines China’s welfare development amidst its rapid economic growth and increasing social tensions. It covers the main policy areas from China’s inception of the open door policy in 1978 to the new ...

ISBN: 9781317937005

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China's Social Welfare Revolution

Contracting Out Social Services

by Jie Lei & Chak Kwan Chan

<p>The Chinese government has recently adopted a radical welfare approach by contracting out social services to non-governmental organisations (NGOs). This is a big departure from its traditional welfare model, whereby all public services were ...

ISBN: 9781351999328

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China's Strategic Priorities

by Jonathan H. Ping & Brett McCormick

<p>The People’s Republic of China is the world’s most populous state and largest consumer of energy, having demonstrated momentous progress on an unprecedented scale. This global power has increasingly shaped international relations as a result ...

ISBN: 9781134592364

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China's Transition from Communism – New Perspectives

by Guoguang Wu & Helen Lansdowne

<p>As China moved from a planned to a market economy many people expected that China’s political system would similarly move from authoritarianism to democracy. It is now clear, however, that political liberalisation does not necessarily follow ...

ISBN: 9781317501190

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China's Universities and the Open Door

by Ruth Hayhoe

<p>Recent events in Tianamen Square have made such books abruptly important, though in some aspects outdated. This one examines reforms in higher education from before the republic to March 1988, and focuses on educational and economic relations

ISBN: 9781315492674

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China's Universities, 1895-1995

A Century of Cultural Conflict

by Ruth Hayhoe

<p>This reissue (1996) provides an in-depth analysis of the development of the Chinese university during the twentieth century – a period of momentous social, economic, cultural and political change. It brings together reflections on the Chinese

ISBN: 9781351387439

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