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In The Shadow Of The Rising Sun - Shanghai Under Japanese Occupation

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 This 2004 volume offers an evaluation of the strategic significance of the Shanghai economy in the Pacific War. It also draws attention to the feminisation of urban public discourse against the backdrop of intensified violence. The essays capture the last moments of European settlements in Shanghai under Japanese occupation.
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Red Capitalists In China - The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, And Prospects For Political Change

by Bruce J. (George Washington University, Washington Dc) Dickson

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 This book, first published in 2003, examines the evolving relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and private entrepreneurs. Although many foreign observers expect that economic change will inevitably lead to political change in China, the author shows that China's entrepreneurs are willing partners with the state rather than an autonomous force in opposition to the state.
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From Mao To Market - Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, And Marketization In China

by Andrew H. (University Of Nebraska, Lincoln) Wedeman

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 This book argues that China succeeded in moving from a Maoist command economy to a market economy because government failed to prevent local officials from forcing prices to market levels. The 'resource wars' that resulted from partial price reform in the early 1980s cleared the way for sweeping reforms.
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From Mao To Market - Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, And Marketization In China

by Andrew H. (University Of Nebraska, Lincoln) Wedeman

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 This book argues that China succeeded in moving from a Maoist command economy to a market economy because government failed to prevent local officials from forcing prices to market levels. The 'resource wars' that resulted from partial price reform in the early 1980s cleared the way for sweeping reforms.
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Chinese Professionals And The Republican State - The Rise Of Professional Associations In Shanghai, 1912â€“1937

by Xiaoqun (Francis Marion University, South Carolina) Xu

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 Xu makes a compelling, original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this 2001 book on the rise of professional associations in Republican China. This book is rich in detail about the key professional and political figures and organizations in Shanghai, filling an important gap in its social history.
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China'S Use Of Military Force - Beyond The Great Wall And The Long March

by Andrew (University Of Louisville, Kentucky) Scobell

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 This 2003 book examines China's use of force domestically and abroad. The author warns that a 'Cult of Defense' disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive, while recent changes in PLA suggest that today's leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors.
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The Making Of The Chinese Industrial Workplace - State, Revolution, And Labor Management

by Mark W. (University Of Louisville, Kentucky) Frazier

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 This book traces the origins of the 'iron rice bowl' of comprehensive cradle-to-grave benefits and lifetime employment in Chinese factories. It suggests that, in some ways, the Chinese revolution in 1949 was not as revolutionary as most have thought.
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Taxation Without Representation In Contemporary Rural China

by Thomas P. (Columbia University, New York) Bernstein e Xiaobo (Barnard College, New York) Lu

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 This book provides the first, in-depth English study of the problem of aggressive taxation by local governments in China and explains how this has played a large role in the development gap between urban and rural areas and in the disaffection of a large proportion of the population in rural China.
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China Since Tiananmen - From Deng Xiaoping To Hu Jintao

by Joseph (Boston University) Fewsmith

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 In edition edition of his path-breaking analysis of political and social change in China since the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Joseph Fewsmith traces developments since 2001. These include the continuing reforms during the final years of Jiang Zemin's premiership and Hu Jintao's succession in 2002.
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China Since Tiananmen - From Deng Xiaoping To Hu Jintao

by Joseph (Boston University) Fewsmith

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 In edition edition of his path-breaking analysis of political and social change in China since the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Joseph Fewsmith traces developments since 2001. These include the continuing reforms during the final years of Jiang Zemin's premiership and Hu Jintao's succession in 2002.
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Banking In Modern China - Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, And The Development Of Chinese Banks, 1897â€“1937

by Linsun (University Of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) Cheng

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 This book documents the evolution of modern Chinese banking, from the establishment in 1897 of the first Chinese bank along a Western model, to the abrupt interruption of professional banking by the Japanese invasion in 1937.
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Factionalism In Chinese Communist Politics

by Jing (Utah State University) Huang

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 Factionalism is widely understood to be a distinguishing characteristic of Chinese politics. In this book, first published in 2000, Jing Huang examines the role of factionalism in leadership relations and policy-making. His detailed knowledge of intra-party politics offers an alternative understanding of still-disputed struggles behind the high walls of leadership in Zhongnanhai.
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Power And Wealth In Rural China - The Political Economy Of Institutional Change

by Susan H. (University Of Washington) Whiting

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 Susan Whiting develops through the case of China's rural industrial sector a theoretical framework to explain institutional change. She explores the complex interactions of individuals, institutions and the broader political economy to explain variation and change in property rights and extractive institutions in rural China.
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Social Engineering And The Social Sciences In China, 1919â€“1949

by Yung-Chen (Depauw University, Indiana) Chiang

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 This 2001 book narrates the origins, visions and achievements of the social sciences in China. It focuses on the efforts of social scientists at three institutions to relate their disciplines to the needs of Chinese society. More broadly, he examines the transfer, indigenization and international patronage of the social sciences.
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In Search Of Chinese Democracy - Civil Opposition In Nationalist China, 1929â€“1949

by Edmund S. K. (University Of Western Sydney Nepean) Fung

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 Examining factors that shaped Chinese liberal thought, Fung argues that the reasons democracy was thwarted during the 1930s and 1940s were more political than cultural. The Nationalist era contained the germs of a reformist, liberal order, he asserts, and the legacy of this era is evident in the post-Mao pro-democracy movement.
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Chinese Urban Life Under Reform - The Changing Social Contract

by Wenfang (University Of Pittsburgh) Tang e William L. (University Of Chicago) Parish

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 This book provides a rare glimpse into how the Chinese urban population is experiencing the rapid shift from a planned to a market economy as workers, civil servants, intellectuals, and women report their grievances and joys at home, at work, and in the public sphere.
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Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule - The Economic And Political Implications Of Reversion

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 The focus of this book is on the impact Chinese control is likely to have on the city's role in the international economic system, and how the business community will be affected. The result is a balanced analysis of a sensitive subject: the prospects for Hong Kong's continued success and freedom.
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Factionalism In Chinese Communist Politics

by Jing (Utah State University) Huang

177,10€ + 10% CARD

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 Factionalism is widely understood to be a distinguishing characteristic of Chinese politics. In this book, first published in 2000, Jing Huang examines the role of factionalism in leadership relations and policy-making. His detailed knowledge of intra-party politics offers an alternative understanding of still-disputed struggles behind the high walls of leadership in Zhongnanhai.
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Selling China - Foreign Direct Investment During The Reform Era

by Yasheng (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Huang

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 This book proposes a different perspective on China's integration in the world economy. Most economists view China's large foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows as a result of China's economic success. This book views the same phenomenon as a function of the imperfections in the Chinese economic system.
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China In The World Market - Chinese Industry And International Sources Of Reform In The Post-Mao Era

by Thomas G. (University Of Cincinnati) Moore e Thomas Moore

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 This book examines the role of the outside world as a source of change in post-Mao China. This book will be provocative reading for anyone concerned with the nature of China's participation in the world economy and its consequences for the country's development prospects, internal reforms, and foreign policy.
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Forging Reform In China - The Fate Of State-Owned Industry

by Edward S. (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Steinfeld

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 Forging Reform in China explains how and why measures to reform unprofitable state-owned enterprises have not succeeded and how meaningful reform could be achieved.
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Forging Reform In China - The Fate Of State-Owned Industry

by Edward S. (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Steinfeld

52,72€ + 10% CARD

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 Forging Reform in China explains how and why measures to reform unprofitable state-owned enterprises have not succeeded and how meaningful reform could be achieved.
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Chinese Professionals And The Republican State - The Rise Of Professional Associations In Shanghai, 1912â€“1937

by Xiaoqun (Francis Marion University, South Carolina) Xu

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Xu makes a compelling, original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this 2001 book on the rise of professional associations in Republican China. This book is rich in detail about the key professional and political figures and organizations in Shanghai, filling an important gap in its social history.
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The Modern Chinese State

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 This is the first book to examine systematically the evolution of the Chinese state from the late Ming Dynasty of the seventeenth century, through the Nationalist and Communist party states of the twentieth century, and into the next century. Leading scholars explore historical, contemporary and future challenges.
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