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Title 21st century China : views from Australia / edited by Mary Farquhar
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 240 pages) : illustrations, charts, photographs
Contents Introduction / Mary Farquhar -- Beijing Reoriented, an Olympic Undertaking / Geremie R. Barme -- Building a Gift of Politics / Michael Dutton -- Justice and Order in Shanghai: The Case of Forced Housing Demolition and Relocation / Sarah Biddulph -- Restorative Justice or McJustice with Chinese Characteristics? / Susan Trevaskes -- Politics of Power in China / Xu Yi-chong -- Explaining Business: The Role of Culture in Enterprise Development / David S.G. Goodman -- Families and Farmland in Chinese Villages: Unexpected Findings / Jonathan Unger -- Taste and the Hierarchy in China's Cities / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald -- The Past at Present: China's "Confucian" Revival / John Makeham -- Climbing the Great Wall of China for Australia: Three Views / Claire Roberts, Jean-François Lanzarone and Sang Ye -- The Great Wall of China: Military Barrier and National Icon / Claire Roberts -- Impressions of China and the Great Wall / Jean-François Lanzarone -- Building New Great Walls / Sang Ye translated by Delia Lin -- Digital Imaginaries: Zhang Yimou's Hero and Sydney's Animal Logic -- Being Chinese Australian: The Best of Both Worlds / Kylie Kwong
Summary Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd famously said that China issues are part of 21st century Australia's 'very life-blood'. This brings short-term challenges to the Australia-China relationship, from Chinese investments in our resources to visits to Australia by expatriate regional political and religious leaders, labelled 'splittists' or 'terrorists', by the Chinese government. Our long-term relationship includes robust scholarship on China as an emerging superpower. In this book, leading ..
Subject Social change -- China -- 21st century
Humanities.
C 2000 -.
Society & culture: general.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Economic history
International relations
Social change
Social conditions
SUBJECT Australia -- Relations -- China
China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
China -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003000103
Subject Australia
China
Form Electronic book
Author Farquhar, Mary Ann, 1949-
ISBN 9781443816045
1443816043