Chinese Politics

This book presents an illuminating and comprehensive summary record of contrasting and competing expert forecasts and judgements about the major issues confronting China within four principal domains - political, economic, environmental and international. Considering the principal forecasting method..

This book presents an illuminating and comprehensive summary record of contrasting and competing expert forecasts and judgements about the major issues confronting China within four principal domains - political, economic, environmental and international. Considering the principal forecasting method..

 This book considers the nature of environmental conflicts in China and the way authorities have handled situations. It includes detailed case studies of conflicts, relates the governance of environmental conflicts in China to wider discussions on the nature of governance and examines under what con..

This book analyses how AIDS has been problematized in the PRC as an object of governance in international and national political frameworks. Exploring recent representations of female sex workers and male migrant labourers, the book evaluates governmentality in the PRC, and offers new insights into ..

The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, which was led by British staff, is often seen as one of the key agents of Western imperialism in China, the customs revenue being one of the major sources of Chinese government income but a source much of which was pledged to Western banks as the collateral for,..

This book assesses the implementation and impact of these elections, both in terms of democratizing the polity and spurring other changes in state-society relations._x000D_ The chapters in this book have been published across several issues of the Journal of Contemporary China...

This Handbook, comprising around twenty-five chapters provided by numerous experts in the field, will prove invaluable to students of international affairs, academics, researchers, businesspeople and policy analysts...

Offering a fresh and unique approach to surveying the historical transformations of the Chinese state, this book focuses on human security in contrast with the twenty-first century obsession with national security...

This book marks a new attempt at understanding the activities of various interest groups in their quest for democratic participation, governmental responsiveness and openness...

China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is not new: in the late nineteenth century, the United States put forward the Open Door Policy as a counter to European exclusive 'spheres of influence' in China. This book examines and re-evaluates China's O..

China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is not new: in the late nineteenth century, the United States put forward the Open Door Policy as a counter to European exclusive 'spheres of influence' in China. This book examines and re-evaluates China's O..

Since the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 there has been increasing international pressure on China to improve its approach to human rights, whilst at the same time the Chinese government has itself realised the need to improve, and has done much to implement improvements. This book explores the i..