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The urbanization rate in China soared from 29.4% in 1996 to 52.6% in 2012 following an upsurge in the construction of development zones, new urban districts and international metropolises.China's urbanization is one of the two major events that will affect the development of human society in the 21st century, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the acclaimed American Nobel prize-winning economist, the other being the next round of the US-led new technological revolution.Urbanization, an inexorable trend of economic and social development, can act as a benchmark to gauge the economic and societal progress of a country. Since the founding of the PRC, and especially since the reform and opening-up process was launched in 1978, China has witnessed a marked upward spike in the size of its urban population. This trend has accelerated in recent decades, with small towns and cities emerging in large numbers. The authors of this textbook explore the evolution of the economy, society, ecology and culture associated with urbanization, to reveal the distinctive characteristics of urbanization in contemporary China. They examine the changes taking place in towns and cities since the start of reform and opening up, and investigate how the Chinese government has been working to establish an institutional framework to guarantee that urbanization develops in a sustainable way.

This useful pocket sized handbook is written by experts on topics such as Business Etiquette, E-commerce, Social Media, and Connecting with Chinese Consumers. Containing economic information accompanied by up-to-date maps, charts and tables of each region in China, from the prosperous coastal cities to the developing inland areas.

Scott Kronick is President and CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations, Asia Pacific. A 28-year veteran of Ogilvy Public Relations, Scott has spent 24 of those years working in leadership positions throughout the Asia Pacific region. Scott has received numerous awards during his career and today Ogilvy Public Relations is one of the leading and most influential public relations consultancies in the Asia Pacific region. Scott is also the author of The Lighter Side of China, a collection of short stories written in a light-hearted style about an American living in Greater China for 24 years. Today Scott lives with his wife Lisa and two children Jacquelin and Samuel in Beijing, China.

In The Lighter Side of China, Scott Kronick delights the reader with comic tales and lessons learnt from living and working in China and North Asia over the past two decades. In a series of 25 short stories accompanied by elegantly-sketched cartoons and crammed with amusing and informative anecdotes, Kronick light-heartedly chronicles the potential pitfalls of negotiating through interpreters, how his Chinese colleagues chose their English names, and the trials and tribulations of grappling with âEUR¿squatterâEUR(TM) toilets.

 Evening, I made my one hundred and seventy-eighth scratch on the cave wall.Despite her humble rural beginnings, Butterfly regards herself as a sophisticated young woman. So, when offered a lucrative job in the city, she jumps at the chance.But instead of being given work, she is trafficked and sold to Bright Black, a desperate man from a poor mountain village.Trapped in Bright’s cave home, Butterfly struggles to repel his lustful advances, and she plans her escape… not so easily done in this isolated and remote village where she is watched day and night.Will her tenacity and free spirit survive, or will she be broken?

My Thirty Years in China is a collection of autobiographies of select foreign pioneers of business and industry in China. The collection includes memoirs by Sidney Rittenberg, Clinton Dines, Joerge Wuttke, and Michael De Clercq among others. For the few foreign business people who have been engaged with China since this time, the changes have been dramatic. Their memories and insights âEUR" sometimes comic, sometimes sad âEUR" recall the joys and frustrations of their adopted home and paint a fascinating picture of what has changed in China over the past three decades âEUR" and what has not.