Traditionally, political scientists and economists have seen China as a single entity and business people have seen China as a single market. This book challenges the notion of a centralised and unified China, and outlines how provinces are taking on new economic and political roles, forced upon them by decentralisation.It is the most thorough data on contemporary Chinese provinces available an…
While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of leadership's responses. Threats to China come from many fronts, Beardson shows, and by their number and sh…
China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are every…
The "Thirty-six Strategies" are well-known to the Chinese and are frequently applied in business practices. No one can pinpoint the exact period in which the thirty-six strategies were written, nor the exact combinations of strategies that constitute the thirty-six. However, through the years, scholars have expediently adopted the thirty-six strategies as a set of common tactics used by the Chi…
This book contains: 1. A brief historical background on the period before the liberation 2. Natural and social economic conditions 3. Transformation and readjustment in the agricultural sector 4. China's rural economic development 5. Rural development and modernization 6. China's bilateral relations 7. People's living standard, social security and culture in rural areas 8. General dis…
Soon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western. Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years since the first edition was published, When China Rules the World has proved to be a remarkably prescient book, transforming the nature of the debate on China. Now, in this gr…
Martin Jacques berpandangan bahwa China sama sekali tidak akan menjadi sebuah masyarakat bergaya Barat. China akan tetap sangat unik. Berukuran dan bermental benua, dan dihuni seperlima penduduk dunia, China adalah sebuah negara-peradaban dengan karakteristik, sikap dan nilai-nilai yang sudah jauh lebih dulu dari eksistensinya sebagai negara-bangsa. China sudah memiliki pengaruh ekonomi sangat …
Contents: 1. China's economy in early 21st century: Background and role of reform 2. Major tasks for the pivotal stage of reform of the state sector in the 21st century 3. It is fundamental to establish an income system with employees shareholding as the key in early 21st century 4. Rural economic reform focusing on introducing a long-term and guranteed land-use right in the early 21st cent…
Although dozens of books have been published about China's rise, most authors treat it as an economic, political or military bloc rather than seeing it as a powerhouse of ideas that could influence our world. They have little to say about China's intellectual debates, or the ideological competition they might pose to the European and American world-views.
The Belt And Road Initiative (English Edition) takes part of the speech Work Together to Build the Silk Road Economic Belt made by President Xi Jinping in Nazarbayev University of Kazakhstan in September 2013 as the starting chapter and part of the speech made by President Xi Jinping on the opening of the eighth ministerial conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) as the cl…