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Title Marginalisation in China : perspectives on transition and globalisation / edited by Heather Xiaoquan Zhang, Bin Wu, Richard Sanders
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrations
Series IGU marginal regions series
Marginal regions.
Contents Introduction: marginalisation and globalisation in transitional China / Heather Xiaoquan Zhang and Richard Sanders -- Marginalisation in the Chinese countryside: the question of rural poverty / Richard Sanders, Yang Chen and Yiying Cao -- Marginalisation of laid-off state-owned enterprise workers in Wuhan / Jun Tang, Mingzhu Dong and Mark Duda -- Marginalisation in the Chinese energy sector: the case of township and village coal mines / Philip Andrews-Speed -- Living and working at the margin: rural migrant workers in China's transitional cities / Li Zhang -- Marginalisation and health provision in transitional China / Zhiqiang Feng -- Institutional responses to the changing patterns of poverty and marginalisation in China since 1949 / Ka Lin -- Globalisation and marginalisation of Chinese overseas contract workers / Bin Wu -- The World Trade Organization and Chinese farmers: implications for agricultural crisis and marginalisation / John Q. Tian -- China, the World Trade Organization and the end of the agreement on textiles and clothing: impacts on workers / Markus Eberhardt and John Thoburn -- Conceptualising the links: migration, health and sustainable livelihoods in China / Heather Xiaoquan Zhang -- Spatial and social marginalisation of health in China: the impact of globalisation / Ian G. Cook and Trevor J.B. Dummer -- Civil society and marginalisation: grassroots NGOs in Qinghai province / Katherine Morton
Summary Ongoing economic transition and development in China involves the re-centralisation of its resources from marginal areas, sectors and groups. Providing an overview of China's recent economic, social and political development, this book focuses on the processes, characteristics, trends and impacts of this marginalisation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Globalization -- Economic aspects -- China
Regional economic disparities.
Marginality, Social -- China
Equality -- China
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Economic policy
Equality
Globalization -- Economic aspects
Marginality, Social
Regional economic disparities
Globalisierung
Chancengleichheit
Armut
Wirtschaftspolitik
Soziale Ungleichheit
Regionale Disparität
Marginalität
SUBJECT China -- Economic policy -- 1976-2000. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024024
China -- Economic policy -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001557
Subject China
China
Form Electronic book
Author Zhang, Heather Xiaoquan.
Wu, Bin, 1957 November 6-
Sanders, Richard, 1947-
LC no. 2007002932
ISBN 9780754684817
0754684814
1317100689
9781317100683
9786611098858
6611098852
Other Titles Marginalization in China