Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise (Rozelle Scott)(Pevná vazba)

Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise (Rozelle Scott)(Pevná vazba)

As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China, the truth is much more complicated and might be

China Shakes The World - The Rise of a Hungry Nation (Kynge James)(Paperback / softback)

Authoritative and fully up-to-date account by leading China expert on China's economic rise and how it will affect the

The Emerging Industrial Relations of China (Brown William)(Pevná vazba)

Labour relations are at the heart of China's extraordinary economic rise. This growth, accompanied by internal migration, urbanisation and rising income have brought a dramatic increase in the aspirations of workers, forcing the Chinese government to restructure its relationships with both

China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History (Karl Rebecca E.)(Pevná vazba)

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's 'great rejuvenation,' a story

China's Vanishing Worlds: Countryside, Traditions, and Cultural Spaces (Messmer Matthias)(Pevná vazba)

Photographs and text document disappearing cultural landscapes and lifestyles in rural China, capturing poignant scenes far from Beijing or Shanghai.Just a few kilometers from the glittering skylines of Shanghai and Beijing, we encounter a vast countryside, an often forgotten and seemingly

The Strategy of Chinese Rural-Urban Coordinated Development to 2020 Part 2 (Jiuwen Sun)(Pevná vazba)

The Strategy of Chinese Rural-Urban Coordinated Development to 2020 focuses on the coordinated development and integration of rural and urban areas in China as it transits from a traditional agrarian economy to a modern industrialized state. Using theoretical and empirical studies, it suggests a

Urbanization and Urban Governance in China: Issues, Challenges, and Development (Ye Lin)(Pevná vazba)

Offers a more tightly knitted and concrete analysis on the governance issues of China's urbanizationExamines how China's urban governance needs to evolve and respond to the challenges of urbanization. Explores practical recommendations for China's future urbanization

The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance in China (Zhang J.)(Pevná vazba)

Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending and responding to ethical and regulatory

Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals (Veg Sebastian)(Pevná vazba)

Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian-unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people-intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China's public culture. Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy

China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy (Martin Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The untold story of China's rise as a global superpower, chronicled through the diplomatic shock troops that connect Beijing to the world. China's Civilian Army charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished communist state to a global superpower from the perspective of those on

New Media and China's Social Development (Xie Yungeng)(Pevná vazba)

Addresses the developmental history of and trends in new media in China Demonstrates how new media profoundly influences media ecology and all aspects of society Illustrates how new media is facilitating social development and transformation in China

China: A History in Objects (Harrison-Hall Jessica)(Pevná vazba)

This illustrated introduction to the history of China offers a fresh understanding of China's progress from the Neolithic age to the present. Told in six chapters arranged chronologically, through art, artifacts, people, and places, and richly illustrated with expertly selected objects and

The Tyranny of Metrics (Muller Jerry Z.)(Pevná vazba)

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the

China's Strategic Deterrence (Narang Anshuman)(Pevná vazba)

Analyses the fast-paced progress made by China and its People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the military-cum-geo-political landscape. This book reveals the contours of Chinese policy, identifies the key stratagems of the Chinese Grand Strategy, its implications, and key deterrence

The Costliest Pearl: China's Struggle for India's Ocean (Lintner Bertil)(Pevná vazba)

The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Not since Admiral Zheng He sailed his fleet through these waters in the fifteenth century -- exploring and mapping them in a bid to extend the

China-Us Trade War and Trade Talk (Yu Miaojie)(Pevná vazba)

Understanding the Recent Sino-U.S. Trade Conflict.- The Status of China's Market Economy and Structural Reforms: The Issues behind the U.S.-China Trade War.- The Day After Tomorrow: Evaluating the Burden of Trump's Trade War.- The Potential Impact of China-US BIT on China's Manufacturing Sectors.-

Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction (Ning Ou)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan. The Bishan Project (2011-2016) was a rural reconstruction project in a small village Bishan, Anhui Province, China. The writings describe and criticize the

Scotland's Rural Home: Nine Stories about Contemporary Architecture (Brennan John)(Pevná vazba)

The nine building stories told in this book show how rural households and communities define themselves, and the role architecture plays in

Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Hong Fincher Leta)(Pevná vazba)

A feminist movement clashing with China's authoritarian governmentOn the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause c l bre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on

Justice: The China Experience (Sapio Flora)(Pevná vazba)

Claims about a pursuit of justice weave through all periods of China's modern history. But what do authorities mean when they refer to 'justice' and do Chinese citizens interpret justice in the same way as their leaders? This book explores how certain ideas about justice have come to be dominant in

China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay (Pei Minxin)(Pevná vazba)

When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build 'socialism with Chinese characteristics.' More than three decades later, China's efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people's paradise Deng envisioned: an

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Ang Yuen Yuen)(Pevná vazba)

Acclaimed as game changing and field shifting, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap advances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise. How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers:

Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare (Jones Seth G.)(Pevná vazba)

China's Leaders: From Mao to Now (Shambaugh David)(Pevná vazba)

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an