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Demonstrating the crucial importance of local governance in
China’s development and international relations, this topical
Handbook combines theoretical approaches with novel methodological
tools to understand state-society relations at the local level. The
Handbook assesses the formal mechanisms that organize territorial
relations and scales of state to reconceptualize the local in
China’s sociopolitical history. Addressing the complexity of
local governance, it examines both the state and societal actors
that are involved in how local policies are designed and
implemented. Chapters review the emerging literature on Chinese
bureaucracy, central-local relations, administrative hierarchies,
functional division of power in local governments, and policy
innovation. Looking towards the future of the neoliberal capitalist
world order, the Handbook also considers economic governance at the
local level in the evolving contexts of digitalization and green
transformation, before tackling issues related to social governance
including housing policies and public services. Interdisciplinary
in scope, this comprehensive Handbook will be essential to students
and scholars of Asian politics, policy, urban studies, and
regulation and governance. It will also benefit policymakers across
Asia working in governmental regulation and public administration
and management.
By examining the changing political economy in China through
detailed studies of the peasantry, workers, middle classes, and the
dominant class, this volume reveals the Communist Party of China's
(CCP's) impact on social change in China between 1978 and 2021.
This book explores in depth the CCP's programme of reform and
openness that had a dramatic impact on China's socio-economic
trajectory following the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the
Cultural Revolution. It also goes on to chart the acceptance of
Market Socialism, highlighting the resulting emergence of a larger
middle class, while also appreciating the profound consequences
this created for workers and peasants. Additionally, this volume
examines the development of the dominant class which remains a
defining feature of China's political economy and the Party-state.
Providing an in-depth analysis of class as understood by the CCP in
conjunction with sociological interpretations of socio-economic and
socio-political change, this study will be of interest to students
and scholars of Chinese Politics, Chinese History, Asian Politics,
and Asian studies.
Authored by a stellar line-up of top China scholars from the US,
Europe, Australia and China. Interdisciplinary in approach, so will
appeal to courses on Chinese society, politics and history. Writing
style is excellent and the chapters are truly connected due to the
bok being co-authored.
First published in 1989. This book considers two major aspect of
China's economic reform: the 'open policy' towards the West, aimed
at attracting technology and skills into the country and the
emphasis on 'regionalization' which established market-orientated
rather than bureaucratically-controlled patterns of economic
development.
What an impressively successful venture! The authors are experts,
who offer here authoritative, research-based, brand-new findings,
excellent coverage of extant literature, new ideas and novel
interpretations, analyses of controversies concerning their topics,
and fascinating case studies. While specialists absolutely need to
consult every chapter, its clarity and comprehensibility - plus its
provision of definitions and distinctions - mean it is pitched such
that even the totally uninitiated can absorb its information.
Overall, a most superb collection, going well beyond what one would
imagine a 'handbook' might hold.' - Dorothy J. Solinger, University
of California, Irvine, USThe Handbook of the Politics of China is a
comprehensive resource introducing readers to the very latest in
research on Chinese politics. David Goodman provides an
introduction to the key structures and issues, providing the
foundations on which later learning can be built. Including a
comprehensive bibliography, it is an ideal reference work for
undergraduate and postgraduate students and academics. The Handbook
contains four sections of new and original research, dealing with
leadership and institutions, public policy, political economy and
social change, and international relations. Each of the 26 chapters
has been written by a leading internationally-established authority
in the field and each reviews the literature on the topic, and
presents the latest findings of research. Presenting the state of
the art of the field, this reader-oriented Handbook is an essential
primer for the study of China's politics. Contributors include: S.
Breslin, K. Brown, A. Camarena, C. Cartier, M. Chen, J.
A.Donaldson, J. Dosch, J. Duckett, B. Gill, D.S.G. Goodman, Y. Guo,
W. Guohui, J.Y.J. Hsu, D. Hu, Y. Ji, K. Kojima, F. Li, L.C. Li,
W.J. Morgan, B. Naughton, J.C. Oi, L.H. Ong, J. Reilly, S. Suzuki,
F.C. Teiwes, G. Wang, Z. Wang, X.Yan, D.L.Yang, X. Zang, Y. Zheng
A general expectation has developed that China's middle class will
generate not only social but also political change. This
expectation often overlooks the reality that there is no single
Chinese middle class with a common identity or will to action. This
timely volume examines the behaviour and identity of the different
elements of China's middle class entrepreneurs, managers, and
professionals - in order to understand their centrality to the
wider processes of social and political change in China. The expert
contributors seek to identify the social space occupied by the
Chinese middle class rather than identifying social backgrounds and
attitudes. In so doing they explore socio-political issues, the
development of a consumer society, relationships between gender and
class in the workplace, home-ownership and the appearance of gated
communities, and the political interaction between the Party-state
and the entrepreneurial middle classes and their impact on the new
institutional economics. Providing a more nuanced understanding of
the structure of the middle class in China and identifying dynamic
elements in their behaviour, this unique book will prove a
fascinating and thought provoking read for academics, students and
researchers with an interest in Asian studies and public policy.
Contributors include: C. Cartier, M. Chen, L. Chunling, D.S.G.
Goodman, H. Hendrischke, D. Jianzhong, Y. Jing, J. Liu, J.L. Rocca,
B. Tang, J. Unger
This unique and fascinating book explores three decades of economic
change in China and the consequent transformation of class
relations and class-consciousness in villages and in the urban
workplace. The expert contributors illustrate how the development
of the urban economic environment has led to changes in the urban
working class, through an exploration of the workplace experiences
of rural migrant workers, and of the plight of the old working
class in the state-owned sector. They address questions on the
extent to which migrant workers have become a new working class,
are absorbed into the old working class, or simply remain as
migrant workers. Changes in class relations in villages in the
urban periphery - where the urbanization drive and in-migration has
lead to a new local politics of class differentiation - are also
raised. Presenting new, original field research detailing social
and socio-economic change in China, this book will prove invaluable
to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students with an interest
in Asian studies, public policy, regional and urban studies,
political science or sociology. Contributors: J. Andreas, B.
Carrillo, A. Chan, D.S.G Goodman, P.P. Leung, J. Linchuan Qiu, K.
Siu, A.Y. So, L. Tomba, J. Unger, H. Wang
Authored by a stellar line-up of top China scholars from the US,
Europe, Australia and China. Interdisciplinary in approach, so will
appeal to courses on Chinese society, politics and history. Writing
style is excellent and the chapters are truly connected due to the
bok being co-authored.
By examining the changing political economy in China through
detailed studies of the peasantry, workers, middle classes, and the
dominant class, this volume reveals the Communist Party of China's
(CCP's) impact on social change in China between 1978 and 2021.
This book explores in depth the CCP's programme of reform and
openness that had a dramatic impact on China's socio-economic
trajectory following the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the
Cultural Revolution. It also goes on to chart the acceptance of
Market Socialism, highlighting the resulting emergence of a larger
middle class, while also appreciating the profound consequences
this created for workers and peasants. Additionally, this volume
examines the development of the dominant class which remains a
defining feature of China's political economy and the Party-state.
Providing an in-depth analysis of class as understood by the CCP in
conjunction with sociological interpretations of socio-economic and
socio-political change, this study will be of interest to students
and scholars of Chinese Politics, Chinese History, Asian Politics,
and Asian studies.
During its fifty years of existence the People's Republic of China
has seen dramatic changes, from the proclamation of the independent
state through the period of the Communist Revolution, the Cultural
Revolution, the Reform Period. These changes are analysed from the
political, economic and social points of view, chllaenging accepted
orthodoxy. Throughout, the emphasis is on change in the context of
contemporary China, and as part of the Chinese Communist Party's
search for paths to development.
Series Information: Institute of Asian Affairs
Contents: Introduction Gerald Segal and David Goodman 1. Financial Reform: The Incomplete Transition Michael Heller 2. Industrial Reform: Insights from the Electronic Sector Michael Hobday 3. Changing Defence Policies Tim Huxley 4. What Happened to 'Asian Values'? Anthony Milner 5. China: Incomplete Reforms Michael Yahuda 6. Japan: From Crisis to Drama Jean Pierre Lehmann 7. Regional Solutions to Regional Problems? Michael Leifer 8. A New Relationship Between the West and Pacific Asia? François Godement 9. Coping With Corruption and Cronyism Peter Searle Bibliography
Attempts to define the Asian Crisis and its future course continue
to be hotly contested. Towards Recovery in Pacific Asia deals with
financial and industrial reform, defence policies, the
'Asian-Values' debate, corruption and croneyism; as well as China,
Japan and intra-regional affairs. Rather than trying to resolve the
heated debate about the causes of the crisis, this book reflects on
underlying trends to examine the possible paths of recovery.
Bringing together experts in the field, Towards Recovery in Pacific
Asia suggests that recovery is by no means impossible nor as
difficult as might at first have seemed. But it requires political
reform, tackling specific economic problems and the international
support of the US, European Union and World Bank. There are still
causes for concern, such as Indonesia's transition from the Suharto
era and political reform in China and, most significantly, Japan.
With its highly topical focus on the social, political and economic
development of the Asia Pacific region, this book represents a
vital, up-to-date analysis for students and researchers in Asian
studies, International Relations, International Political Economy,
as well as policy makers and professionals working in, or with,
Pacific Asia.
First published in 1989. This book considers two major aspect of
China's economic reform: the 'open policy' towards the West, aimed
at attracting technology and skills into the country and the
emphasis on 'regionalization' which established market-orientated
rather than bureaucratically-controlled patterns of economic
development.
China has experienced the world's fastest economic growth for over
a decade. It is likely that within a generation, China will have
the world's largest economy. Yet, at the moment when China looks
set to regain its former power, serious questions have to be asked
about the continuing integrity of China. The challenges posed by
economic reform, succession politics, and new forces of political
liberalism are compounded by boundary uncertainties, as China
adopts a strategy of greater interdependence with the regional and
global economy. This work analyzes the factors that might lead to
and that might prevent the break-up of China. It provides key data
about economic activity and external connections of the major
regional forces. The analysis should interest those concerned with
the prospects for China and the future stability of East Asia.
The new campaign to 'Open Up the West' that commenced operations in
January 2000 is interesting not only because of its dramatic goal
of developing the western and interior regions of the People's
Republic of China but also because of the ways it has been
articulated. Although presented in some ways as a major state
project, it was introduced almost casually into the political
process, with none of the usual fanfare and perhaps even more
remarkably with no great commitment of state resources. Moreover,
though it has been in progress for only a relatively short period
it is already clear that uncertainties attend its aims, progress
and potential impact. The contested nature of the campaign to Open
Up the West becomes particularly apparent if, as is the case here,
the topic is approached from provincial and local levels as well as
from the national perspective. This book was first published in
2004.
This history provides the first book-length study and the first
county-level analysis of social and political change in the Taihang
Base Area during the key years of the War of Resistance to Japan,
which was instrumental in the establishment of the People's
Republic of China. David Goodman explores revolution as process,
arguing that the Chinese Communist Party was successful because of
its management of revolutionary incrementalism. In particular, he
examines the roles and interactions of a variety of groups,
highlighting the activities of urban intellectuals, teachers, and
peasant small-holders as agents of change. Based on new sources of
information-including materials from the Taihang Base Area recently
republished by the CCP, documentation and reports from the Taiyuan
Archive that have not been made publicly available, and interviews
with veterans of the Taihang Base Area-this meticulously researched
work deepens our understanding of the social and political origins
of the Chinese revolution by considering how both the rural
population and the CCP adapted and changed within that process.
According to common misconception the Chinese political system is
highly centralized. One result of this widely accepted view is that
China specialists have often neglected the study of decision-making
as a process. Concentrating upon the neighbouring but contrasting
provinces of Sichuan and Guizhou during the decade before the
Cultural Revolution, this book examines the interaction between
centre and province and, without adopting a 'centralist' or a
'pluralist' viewpoint, argues that a spatial dimension is of
necessity part of the Chinese decision-making process. Particular
attention is paid to the variability of this interaction over time.
State-society relations and governance are closely related areas of
study and have become important topics in the social sciences in
the past decades, not only in developed countries but also in the
developing world. In China, state-society relations have been
changing in the new era of reform and opening, and governance has
become a central concern in policy practice and in academia. In
this wide-ranging collection of essays, written by scholars from
both inside and outside China, the contributors explore the
complexity of the changing state-society relationship and the modes
and practices of governance in China by combining theoretical
exploration and empirical case studies.
This history provides the first book-length study and the first
county-level analysis of social and political change in the Taihang
Base Area during the key years of the War of Resistance to Japan,
which was instrumental in the establishment of the PeopleOs
Republic of China. David Goodman explores revolution as process,
arguing that the Chinese Communist Party was successful because of
its management of revolutionary incrementalism. In particular, he
examines the roles and interactions of a variety of groups,
highlighting the activities of urban intellectuals, teachers, and
peasant small-holders as agents of change. Based on new sources of
information_including materials from the Taihang Base Area recently
republished by the CCP, documentation and reports from the Taiyuan
Archive that have not been made publicly available, and interviews
with veterans of the Taihang Base Area_this meticulously researched
work deepens our understanding of the social and political origins
of the Chinese revolution by considering how both the rural
population and the CCP adapted and changed within that process.
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