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This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century

This book examines how the privatization and professionalization of 'public' service provision is transforming the nature of government and everyday life in the People's Republic of China . It addresses key theoretical questions on the nature of government in China and documents the emergence of a range of 'new mentalities of government' in China.

This book provides fresh insights into the study of Chinese elites at the county level and below through an empirically rich and diverse set of case studies. By shifting the analytical focus onto the agency of elites and away from the institutional structures within which they operate, it fills significant gaps in the field.

This book provides an urgent insight into how state authorities are currently interacting with NGOs. It brings together the most recent research covering three broad themes, namely the conceptualizations and subsequent functions of NGOs; state-NGO engagement; and NGOs as a mediator between state and society in contemporary China.

This book examines how the privatization and professionalization of 'public' service provision is transforming the nature of government and everyday life in the People's Republic of China . It addresses key theoretical questions on the nature of government in China and documents the emergence of a range of 'new mentalities of government' in China.

As China becomes increasingly integrated into the global system, the pressure to acknowledge and engage with Non-Governmental Organizations will continue to rise. This book provides an urgent insight into how state authorities are currently interacting with NGOs. It brings together the most recent research covering three broad themes, namely the conceptualizations and subsequent functions of NGOs; state-NGO engagement; and NGOs as a mediator between state and society in contemporary China. It provides a future glimpse into the practices and challenges of NGO and state interactions in China's rapidly developing regions, which will aid NGOs strategic planning in both the short- and long-term.

This ground-breaking volume reveals through close detail and broad coverage how exactly cities have been catalysts for Chinas economic development, providing much needed data for those working in fields of economic development and Asian studies.

This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the top leadership, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of shared governance and broadened political participation in China.The chapters explore the elites¿ role as opinion-makers, technical experts, producers of knowledge, and executives or managers, and pose a number of questions, the answers to which are crucial to understanding future political and economic development in China.

Each chapter of this book examines how the state combines with local initiatives from non-state actors in China today. Policy areas examined include cultural strategies, housing, land politics, corruption, peasants¿ burden and cadre reforms, women and gender, and international relations.

Examines the relationship between the international political and economic system, and China's economic and political transition. Exploring international relations theory with a China-centric view, this book addresses significant questions such as who are the key players in China in this process of globalization? And others.

Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China's reform era development within the concept of translocality. These essays focus simultaneously on mobilities and localities, drawing our attention to the multiplying forms of mobility in China, whilst retaining the importance of localities in people's lives.

'Manager Empowerment in China' provides an analysis of the new state-society relationship in China and demonstrates the complexity and fluidity involved in institutional development and market transformation.

This study systematically examines uneven regional development in China, focusing on three central agents: the foreign investor, the state and the region.

This book describes in detail the new state business activities explaining why they have appeared. This entrepreneurialism is an important new dimension of state activity with implications for our understanding of the Chinese state.

This book offers a comprehensive account of inequality in China from an interdisciplinary perspective. It both draws on, and speaks to, the existing body of literature that is generated mainly in the fields of economics and sociology, whilst extending its scope to also examine the political, social, moral and cultural dimensions of inequality. Each chapter addresses the question of inequality from a specific context of research, including housing, health care, social welfare, education, migration, land distribution, law, gender and sexuality.

This volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the 20th century. The future impact of this activity on Chinese civil society is discussed in the last chapter.

Explores China's reform era development within the context of translocality. With contributions from well-respected China specialists, this book focuses simultaneously on mobilities and localities, drawing our attention to the multiplying forms of mobility in China whilst retaining the importance of localities in people's lives.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China.

China's Thought Management argues that by re-emphasizing and modernizing propaganda and thought work since 1989, the CCP has managed to overcome a succession of local and national level crises to emerge as dominant in Chinese society as ever.

This book studies the rulers of China - its top political leaders. It seeks to understand who they are, how job assignment in high politics is determined, and how the Chinese leadership is stratified.

This book provides a theoretically informed case study of the local character of regional change in China's lower Yangzi delta, as well as a new analytical framework for understanding China's unique form of economic modernisation.

This volume reveals through close detail and broad coverage how exactly cities have been catalysts for China's economic development. It provides data for those working in fields of economic development and Asian studies.

Argues that China's semi-authoritarian limitations on the freedom of association and speech, coupled with increased social spaces for civic action has created a milieu in which activism occurs in an embedded fashion.

Contributes to emerging studies of governmentality in non-western and non-liberal settings, by showing how neoliberal discourses on governance, development, education, the environment, community, religion, and sexual health, have been raised in other contexts. This book opens discussions of governmentality to 'other worlds' and the global politics of the present.

The contributors to China's Embedded Activism focus on the environmental realm - one of the most active areas of civil society in modern China.