|
Showing 1 - 13 of
13 matches in All Departments
This book presents a collection and analysis of original policy documents, newly translated into English, from a key period of Chinese development, providing both a current and a retrospective analysis of China's economic reform efforts. Topics dealt with include the evolution of Chinese economic strategy; economic planning and the spread of market mechanisms; technology transfer in industry; evolution of an agricultural system; the development of population policy; and foreign economic relations. The collection will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of Chinese studies, but also to professionals and social scientists concerned with China but unable to read source documents in Chinese.
Chinese Technology Transfer in the 1990s examines - with special
reference to the reform policy and encouragement of foreign direct
investment - scientific policy, research and development and
technology transfer in the People's Republic of China.The book
presents new original work by leading Chinese and British scholars
who provide an up-to-date account of recent developments in the
rapidly changing process of technological modernization, and of the
current problems China is now facing. It demonstrates the extent to
which technology policy and transfer from abroad remain central to
the successful economic development of China. The authors also
highlight the character of the continuing debate within China on
these issues. Complementing these articles are authoritative
discussions on technology transfer, innovation and industrial
development from theoretical, historical and international
perspectives. The book will be of interest to governments,
international agencies interested in the economic development of
China, academics and graduate students.
China's rapid economic development is having profound implications
for energy resources. China has always been exceptionally reliant
on its abundant coal, but consumption of oil and gas have grown
rapidly since reform began in the 1980s. In spite of vigorous
domestic development - most recently in the Tarim Basin - China is
now consuming approximately 8 per cent of the world's oil output
but producing only 4 per cent. China's emergence as an energy
importer has given rise to concerns that it is a major contributor
to recent turmoil in energy markets. This book examines China's
record of oil and gas development, its refining capacity, and
energy prospects. The authors conclude that there are no
fundamental reasons for anxiety about China's demands on the world
energy economy, but they emphasize that its energy future will
depend critically on a continuation of reform and
internationalization. China and the Global Energy Crisis is a
concise but detailed study of these issues. This book will appeal
not only to readers concerned with China and energy issues, but
also to a wider readership seeking to understand China's
development and its global meaning.
This book presents a collection and analysis of original policy
documents, newly translated into English, from a key period of
Chinese development, providing both a current and a retrospective
analysis of China's economic reform efforts. Topics dealt with
include the evolution of Chinese economic strategy; economic
planning and the spread of market mechanisms; technology transfer
in industry; evolution of an agricultural system; the development
of population policy; and foreign economic relations. The
collection will be of great interest not only to scholars and
students of Chinese studies, but also to professionals and social
scientists concerned with China but unable to read source documents
in Chinese.
A study of China's urban employment problems set in the context of
growth and fluctuations in the urban economy between 1949 and 1957.
Its main objectives are to analyse the size and determinants or
urban employment change, and to trace the evolution both of Chinese
thinking about employment and the institutions of labour control
that reflected this thinking in day-to-day administration.
Important source materials used in this book, many of which had not
previously been used by western scholars, include the journal of
the Ministry of Labour and local newspapers and journals. These
materials are used to show the ways in which the urban employment
problem varied according to the geographical location and level of
administration from which it was viewed. Dr Howe examines the
changing urban economic environment and the dimensions of urban
employment and its evolution and relates them to the broader
understanding of economic change in China.
This book provides an analysis of changes in the level and
structure of wages in China from the 1920s to 1972. In the first
part of the study Dr Howe uses this analysis as a starting point to
evaluate the degree to which wage policy objectives have been
achieved, particularly since 1949. The author explains both
fluctuations in policy and discrepancies between plans and reality
and examines the mechanisms of wage determination. In so doing, he
makes it clear that even in a highly planned society there are some
limits to what is possible in the regulation of wages and incomes.
He goes on to argue that the wage system can only be understood
within a common analysis of the whole framework of incentives and
controls affecting the workforce. This approach sheds new light,
not only on the development of the wage system but on economic
aspects of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath.
Shanghai is Asia??'s largest city and for over a hundred years has
played a critical role both in China??'s internal political arid
economic affairs, and in the history of international relations in
the Far East. Before 1949, Shanghai was the principal point of
western and, later, Japanese penetrations of China. Under foreign
control the city saw the beginnings of modern economic growth, of
new forms of westernized education and culture, and of fierce
social and political conflicts. This book is a comprehensive study
of the way in which old Shanghai was transformed and developed by
the Communist Party between 1949 and the later 1970s. It throws
light on the paradox that a city that for years was the object of
hostility and distrust has become in the Post-Mao era the spearhead
of China??'s new programme for economic and technological
modernization. The book is divided into sections dealing with
political, economic and cultural change, and with the special
characteristics of Shanghai??'s rural suburbia.
Shanghai is Asia??'s largest city and for over a hundred years has
played a critical role both in China??'s internal political arid
economic affairs, and in the history of international relations in
the Far East. Before 1949, Shanghai was the principal point of
western and, later, Japanese penetrations of China. Under foreign
control the city saw the beginnings of modern economic growth, of
new forms of westernized education and culture, and of fierce
social and political conflicts. This book is a comprehensive study
of the way in which old Shanghai was transformed and developed by
the Communist Party between 1949 and the later 1970s. It throws
light on the paradox that a city that for years was the object of
hostility and distrust has become in the Post-Mao era the spearhead
of China??'s new programme for economic and technological
modernization. The book is divided into sections dealing with
political, economic and cultural change, and with the special
characteristics of Shanghai??'s rural suburbia.
Examines the policies of labour reform in China, with particular
reference to occupational inheritance, flexible labour efficiency
wage and enterprise behaviour.
This 1973 volume is a fascinating collection of original studies on
the immediate consequences and the likely long-term effects of the
Chinese Cultural Revolution, the enormous social and political
upheaval initiated by Mao Tse-Tung in 1966. The authors discuss a
series of connected problems, all intimately related to the central
theme of leadership and participation in the Chinese pattern of
economic development and social change. The collection is edited by
Stuart Schram, who also provides a long introduction; he puts the
Cultural Revolution in the broad historical perspective of the
Chinese revolution as it has taken shape since the end of the
nineteenth century.
Updated to reflect advances in the field, this introduction
provides a broad, but concise, coverage of recombinant DNA
techniques. Written for advanced undergraduates, graduates and
scientists who want to use this technology, emphasis is placed on
the concepts underlying particular types of cloning vectors to aid
understanding and to enable readers to devise suitable strategies
for novel experimental situations. An introduction to the basic
biochemical principles is presented first. Then PCR and cloning
using E. coli hosts and plasmid, phage and hybrid vectors are
described, followed by the generation and screening of libraries
and how to modify, inactivate or express cloned sequences. Finally
genetic manipulation in a range of other organisms is discussed,
including other bacteria, fungi, algae and plants, insects and
mammals. A series of 'real-life' biological problems are also
presented to enable readers to assess their understanding of the
material and to prepare for exams.
This book is a remarkable attempt to understand and summarize the
current and historical Sino-Japanese relationship: two countries
bound by ties of history, culture, geography, and economic
complementarity. Through this investigation, the contributors are
also able to broaden our understanding of contemporary changes in
international relations, and to consider the implications of
changes in the Sino-Japanese relationship for the wider world. All
contributors are well-known experts in their fields. This volume
deals with the history of contact, the economic imperatives driving
the links, the diplomatic and political manoeuvrings in which both
countries indulge, and the antipathies that mean the Sino-Japanese
`special relationship' is far from trouble-free. This book should
become an invaluable reference work for academics and students.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
|