This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the top leadership, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of shared governance and broadened political participation in China.
The chapters in this collection explore the elites role as opinion-makers, technical experts, producers of knowledge, and executives or managers, and pose a number of questions,...
This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarsh...
'China, Sex and Prostitution' is a topical and important critique of scholarship in China Studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts.
'China, Sex and Prostitution' is a topical and important critique of scholarship in China Studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jef...
The ability of China's entrepreneurs to establish firms in the midst of a strangling bureaucratic system is a topic which demands attention not least because it forms the basis of China's economic development. Combining theoretical approaches with extensive fieldwork, China's Rational Entrepreneurs presents a fresh angle of analysis for understanding the behaviour of Chinese entrepreneurs and what kind of relations they have with local government in order to secure long-term business success.
The ability of China's entrepreneurs to establish firms in the midst of a strangling bureaucratic system is a topic which demands attention not least ...
Katherine Morton analyses the relationship between international and local responses to environmental problems in China, challenging the prevailing wisdom that weak compliance is the only constraint upon local environmental management in China.
Katherine Morton analyses the relationship between international and local responses to environmental problems in China, challenging the prevailing wi...
A study of those scientists holding China's highest academic honour - membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Having carried out extensive systematic data collection of CAS members, Cao examines the social stratification system of the Chinese science community.
A study of those scientists holding China's highest academic honour - membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Having carried out extensive syst...
The author examines the variation in Chinese workers collective action after the Chinese government launched its 1990 reform of state enterprises, putting tens of millions of people out of work.
The author examines the variation in Chinese workers collective action after the Chinese government launched its 1990 reform of state enterprises, put...
It is often assumed that privatisation leads to profit, and that well-delineated property rights and a strong private sector will help boost an economy. This book investigates the property rights in Chinese enterprises in the reform era, finding that distinction between the public and the private are blurred, that national reform policies are implemented unevenly across the country, and that enterprises owned by local governments are actually extremely profitable.
It is often assumed that privatisation leads to profit, and that well-delineated property rights and a strong private sector will help boost an econom...
Political elites are a key topic in contemporary China studies, and have been investigated in relation to factional politics, generation politics, technocracy, and crucially, institutionalization. The institutionalization of elite replacement began in China in the 1980s and quickly accelerated after the early 1990s, as mechanisms emerged to regulate political elites entry and exit, including age limits, term limits, and step-by-step promotion.
By examining the various processes of elite selection, this book explores the role played by institutionalization in elite recruitment, promotion...
Political elites are a key topic in contemporary China studies, and have been investigated in relation to factional politics, generation politics, ...
This volume, written by contributors from a number of different specialisms, suggests that different combinations of factors have contributed to the relative successes and failures in these cities. Endowment factors, preferential policies, and history have all proved to be important. Most importantly, Cities in Post-Mao China suggests that locally-generated strategies of development are crucial determinants. This ground-breaking volume reveals through close detail and broad coverage how exactly cities have been catalysts for Chinas economic development. It will provide much needed...
This volume, written by contributors from a number of different specialisms, suggests that different combinations of factors have contributed to the r...
This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a centrally planned to a market one, and as China opened up to the outside world and was influenced by the outside world, Chinese intellectual activity became more wide-ranging, more independent, more professionalized and more commercially oriented than ever before. The future impact of this activity on Chinese civil society is discussed in the last chapter.
This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy chang...
