China at 60 : global-local interactions

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Davis Library (6th floor)

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HC427.95 .C4368 2011
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Available

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Summary

This edited volume, China at 60, explores the interactions between China and the world, over the course of 60 years of Communist Party rule since 1949 and the impact of these interactions on China's domestic development. To understand China's development experience and its transformation, it is necessary to examine the trajectory of development from pre-reform to post-reform periods. While the book may concur with previous findings on the changing development of China under economic reform, more importantly, it demonstrates the areas of continuity of the PRC's existence over the entire six decades. To that end, a dual theme - change-and-continuity and global-local interactions on China's development - is adopted to assess the historical development of China's policies in various issueareas over the past 60 years. The focus is chiefly on the domestic impacts of China's increasing engagement with the world, the global implications of China's reform efforts and growing power, and the long-lasting uniqueness of this rising non-European nation.
The book brings together a team of international experts to share their perspectives on global-local interactions within a range of different topics, including foreign policy, domestic politics, macroeconomic policy, the central-local relations, the People's Liberation Army, public health, energy security, finance and banking, foreign trade, and intellectual property rights, as well as changes in the state's policies towards interest groups such as ethnic minorities.

Contents

  • Figures p. ix
  • Tables p. xi
  • Preface and Acknowledgements p. xiii
  • Abbreviations p. xvii
  • Contributors p. xxi
  • Introduction: China at Sixty: Global-Local Interactions p. 1 Chan Lai-Ha and Gerald Chan and Kwan Fung
  • Chapter 1 Chinese Foreign Policy: Sixty Years On p. 15 Gerald Chan
  • Chapter 2 Plumbing the Relevance of 'Independence and Self-Reliance' in Chinese Foreign Policy p. 37 Ronald C. Keith
  • Chapter 3 China at Sixty: Domestic Politics p. 61 Ng Ka-Po
  • Chapter 4 Central-Local Relations: Explaining and Anticipating Trends through Processes p. 87 Linda Chelan Li
  • Chapter 5 China's Macroeconomy: Global-Local Interactions p. 117 Kwan Fung
  • Chapter 6 China's Foreign Trade: From Self-Reliance to Outward-Orientation p. 139 Cheng Yuk-Shing
  • Chapter 7 China's Banking Reform: From Mono-Banking to Globalisation p. 163 Charles C.L. Kwong
  • Chapter 8 The Development of Intellectual Property Law in China p. 183 Natalie Stoianoff
  • Chapter 9 In Search of a Modern Fighting Force: Chinese Military Transformation p. 207 You ji
  • Chapter 10 The Power Politics of China's Search for Energy Security: From Pre-Daqing to Post-Daqing p. 229 Pak K. Lee
  • Chapter 11 Oscillating between Mao and Deng? The Domestic-Global Nexus of China's Public Health Reform p. 255 Chan Lai-Ha
  • Chapter 12 China's Ethnic Minorities: Global-Local Interactions over Sixty Years p. 283 Colin Mackerras
  • Glossary p. 307
  • Index p. 313

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