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After millions of migrants moved from the countryside into the cities in China, there was huge pressure to redevelop their enclaves. This emerging urbanism gave way to a new built environment through demolition and the development of new towns, the migrants lives entered a transient phase from an informal to a formal urbanity. This book looks at the migrants and their enclaves, known as the `villages in the city¿. Through an examination of their neighbourhoods, it reveals the characteristics and changes in the migrants¿ livelihood and living places.

This book explores the diverse nature of Chinese workplaces and workforce experiences. Considering a wide range of issues and many different kinds of workplaces, it outlines the critical changes in Chinaa (TM)s workplaces and its workforce over the last decade, including the beginnings of a shortage of skilled labour, the emergence of service industry, including a large business services sector, and changes to the ways that unions influence the Chinese labour market. Unlike many other studies which view changes to Chinaa (TM)s businesses as the outcome of policies implemented from the top by a command economy, this book conveys the full richness of Chinaa (TM)s diverse local labour markets, the important role of private business, and the impact of management education experiences.

Traces the development of Taiwan's relations with its diplomatic partners and Taiwan's policy toward the political opponents of its political opponent - mainland China. This title examines the main diplomatic strategies of Taiwan and its counterparts and the major problems in Taiwan's foreign relations.

Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-US Relations offers a timely and current look at one of the world¿s weightiest bilateral relationships. It goes beyond detailing the conflict and cooperation that have been an integral facet of China-US interactions since 1972, to gauging its evolution and future trends, examining its nuances in regards to diverse issues such as the Asia Pacific leadership structure, the South China Sea, and the Korean peninsula.

China's embrace of globalisation and global integration which was demonstrated so vividly during the 2008 Olympics. This book focuses on how All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming and argues that it is the dependence of primary level trade unions on the employers which is the main obstacle to effective union work.

This book examines the development model that has driven China's economic success and looks at how it differs from the Washington Consensus. Given China's peculiar matrix of a socialist party-state juxtaposed with economic internationalization and marketization, the contributors define the underlying dynamics and distinctive features of the economic, political, legal and social dimensions of China's development model, and examine the interrelations between these characteristics. They then go on to analyse to what extent and under what circumstances is China's development model sustainable, and to what degree is it readily applicable to other developing countries.

This book examines the extensive reforms at the early childhood, primary and secondary levels which have taken place in China in recent years, including those in curriculum goals, structure and content, teaching and learning approaches, and assessment and administrative structures.

China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking: who is poor in China? The author uses five alternative recognition approaches - monetary, capabilities, participatory, social exclusion, and multidimensional - and applies them to the same population of households in Yunnan Province in order to make explicit valid comparisons and deductions about the impact of different approaches on poverty identification and measurement.

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Examines Chinäs `going out¿ policy by addressing the ways in which the underpinning legal reforms enable China to pursue its core interests and broad international responsibilities as a rising power. The contributors consider Chinäs civil and commercial law reforms against the economic backdrop of an outflow of Chinese capital into strategic assets outside her own borders. This movement of capital has become an intriguing phenomenon for both ongoing economic reform and its largely unheralded underpinning law reforms.

This book examines the government of Hong Kong since its handover to China in 1997, arguing that Hong Kong has been poorly governed and that this is what lies behind regular mass protests since 2003. It considers the different aspects of these government problems, and assesses prospects for the future.

This book examines the impact of changing state-society relations that shape contemporary conflicts over Chinese social service provision and looks at how the ongoing negotiation of political space between the state and society impacted the quality and nature of social service provison in transitioning states.

This title raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic development has become so high.

Presents an examination of Jia Pingwa's writings, emphasizing his importance, prominence and relevance to Chinese society. This book discusses his works in the light of 'cultural nationalism', showing how he links the cultural identity of China with the cultural authenticity of his local Shaanxi Province.

Examining the changing role of nationalism in China in the light of the immense political and economic changes of the 1990s, this study analyses debates between the nationalists and liberals in China. It examines the roles played by state-sponsored and populist nationalism in China's foreign relations with the West and the USA.