| Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes) |
| Contents |
vol. 1. pt. 1. Context : history, economy and the environment. The making of the modern state and quest for modernity / Dali Yang ; Nationalism and the nation-state / Prasenjit Duara ; Continuity and change : the economy in the Twentieth Century / Chris Bramall ; Geographic and environmental setting / David Pietz -- pt. II. Economic transformations : introduction / Weiping Wi. Evolution of market reforms / Linda Yueh ; State-owned enterprise : reform, performance and prospects / Gary H. Jefferson ; The rural economy / Susan H. Whiting and Dan Wang ; Economic growth and labor security / Jenny Chan ; Inbound foreign direct investment / Yasheng Huang ; Financial system / Ming He, Yang Chen and Ronald Schramm ; Technology, innovation and knowledge-based economy / Albert Hu ; Sustaining growth : energy and natural resources / Jo Inge Bekkevold and Øystein Tunsjø -- pt. III. Politics and government : introduction / Mark Frazier. The Communist Party and ideology / Kerry Brown ; Corruption in reform era : a multidisciplinary review / Jiangnan Zhu ; Campaigns in politics : from revolution to problem solving / Zhengxu Wang ; Popular protest / Wu Zhang ; Bureaucracy and policy making / Andrew Mertha ; Local and grassroots governance / John James Kennedy and Dan Chen ; Labor politics / William Hurst ; Legal and judicial system / Vivienne Bath -- pt. IV. China on the global stage : introduction / Mark W. Frazier. China as a global financial power / Arthur Kroeber ; China and global energy governance / Gaye Christoffersen ; China and global regimes / Andrew J. Nathan ; Engagement in global health governance regimes / Bei Tang and Yanzhong Huang -pt. V. China's foreign policy : introduction / Mark W. Frazier. China-US relations in a changing global order / Rosemary Foot ; China-Japan relations / Ed Griffith and Caroline Rose ; Chinese-Russian relations / Alexander Lukin ; China's relations with the Korean Peninsula / Carla P. Freeman ; Chinese foreign policy : Southeast Asia / Taomo Zhou and Hong Liu |
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vol. 2. pt. VI. National and nested identities : introduction / Mark W. Frazier. Popular nationalism / Benjamin Darr ; Taiwanese identity / Lowell Dittmer ; Hong Kong identity / Ho-Fung Hung ; Chinese outside China / Nyíri Pál ; Studying Tibetan identity / Ben Hillman ; Uyghur identities / Joanne Smith Finley ; Ethnic studies beyond Tibet and Xinjiang / Katherine Palmer Kaup ; Religion / André Laliberté ; Sexual minorities / William F. Schroeder -- pt. VII. Urbanization and spatial development : introduction / Weiping Wu. Urbanization and urban system / Chaolin Gu and Ian Gillespie Cook ; Population mobility and migration / C. Cindy Fan ; Financing urbanization and infrastructure / Weiping Wu ; Land and housing markets / Jiang Xu ; Socio-spatial transformation of cities / Jia Feng and Guo Chen -- pt. VIII. Poverty and inequality : introduction / Weiping Wu. Poverty and its alleviation / Björn Gustafsson ; Regional inequality : scales, mechanisms and beyond / Felix Haifeng Liao and Yehua Dennis Wei ; The making of the 'migrant class' / Huimin Du and Wenfei Winnie Wang ; Gender, migration and HIV/STI risks and risk behaviors / Xiushi Yang, Hongyun Fu and Meizhen Liao ; Income inequality and class stratification / Yanjie Bian, Lei Zhang, Yinghui Li, Yipeng Hu and Na Li --pt. IX. Social change : introduction / Weiping Wu. Demographics and aging / David R. Phillips and Zhixin Feng ; Social welfare / Daniel Hammond ; China's education system : loved and hated / Mette Halskov Hansen ; Nightlife and night-time economy in urban China / James Farrer ; Family life / Jieyu Liu, Eona Bell and Jiayu Zhang ; Health, disease and medical care /Lawton R. Burns and Gordon G. Liu ; Media since 1949 : changes and continuities / Jian Xu and Wanning Sun -- pt. X. Future directions for contemporary china studies. The future(s) of China studies / Sarah Mellors and Jeffrey Wasserstrom ; The future of China's past / Kristin Stapleton ; China and the challenges of comparison / Mark W. Frazier |
| Summary |
An exploration of the transformations of contemporary China, firmly grounded in both disciplinary and China-specific contexts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 04, 2018) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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Diplomatic relations
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024032
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China -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153
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China -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024011
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China -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024025
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China -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024178
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wu, Weiping, editor.
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Fraser, Mark, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781526455598 |
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1526455595 |
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9781526436085 |
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1526436086 |
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