Interpreting China's development / editors, Wang Gungwu, John Wong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I -- II -- Part I. The Challenges of Governance -- Survey Chapter -- Responding to Challenges and Problems of Governance -- Topical Chapters -- The Dynamics of Elite Politics in China -- How Did the Hu-Wen Leadership Consolidate Its Power? -- The Chinese Communist Party in Rapid Transformation -- The Party and the Media: Control versus Change -- Political Reforms First, Democracy Later? -- The Struggle against Corruption -- Managing Chinas Civil Servants -- Can Beijing Still Dictate Local Politics? -- Towards the Rule of Law -- The Party and the Gun: Civil-Military Relations -- The PLA in Transformation -- Hong Kong and Macau under One Country, Two Systems -- Chen Shui-bian: Taiwans Lame Duck President -- What to Expect from the 17th Party Congress -- Part II. Growth and Structural Changes -- Survey Chapter -- Chinas Major Economic Challenge: Sustaining High Growth Whilst Fixing Its Growth Problems -- Topical Chapters -- Chinas Twin Surpluses -- Explaining High Productivity Growth -- The 11th Five-Year Programme -- Chinas Drive to Become a Technological Power -- Banking Reforms to Meet WTO Obligations -- Reforming State-Owned Enterprises -- Rise of Chinas Auto Industry -- The Political Economy of Urban and Regional Development -- Shanghais Mega Port in Yangshan -- Chinas Energy Outlook -- Part III. Coping with Rising Social Problems -- Survey Chapters -- Social Dilemmas of High Economic Growth -- What is Chinas San-Nong (Rural) Problem? -- Topical Chapters -- Growth and Widening Inequalities -- Reforming Hukou to Protect Migrant Labour -- Building a New Social Safety Net -- China Facing an Environmental Crisis -- Chinas Cultural Development -- Chinas Booming Higher Education -- Chinas Emerging Middle-Class -- Haigui in China's Modernisation -- Part IV. Chinas Relations with Major Powers and its Neighbours -- Survey Chapter -- Featuring 8220;Harmonious World8221; for 8220;Peaceful Rise8221; -- Topical Chapters -- China and US: A Pivotal but Uncertain Relationship -- Managing Difficult Relations with Japan -- Facing a More Assertive and Nationalistic Japan -- China and South Korea in Their Dealings with North Korea -- Seeking Closer Cooperation with Post-Suharto Indonesia -- Malaysias Relations with China: From Mahathir to Badawi -- Chinas Special Relationship with Singapore -- EU and China: Heading towards Bumpy Relations -- Chinas Growing Influence in Africa -- Index.

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In Interpreting China?s Development, leading experts on China provide an overview of this growing superpower, highlighting key issues in the country's political, economic and social development. Underpinned by up-to-date scholarly research yet written in a readable and concise style, this volume of over 40 short chapters offers a very accessible way to understanding the major events and dominant issues that had emerged in China over the last few decades. The essays are grouped under four thematic sections? challenges of governance, growth and structural changes, coping with rising social prob.

English.

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