Critical Issues in Contemporary China
Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity, Stability and Development comprehensively examines key problems crucial to understanding modern-day China.
Organized around three interrelated themes of unity, stability and development, each chapter explores distinct issues and debates their significance for China domestically and for Beijings engagement with the wider world. While presenting contending explanatory approaches, the contributors advance arguments to further critical discussion on selected topics.
The main issues analysed are:
political change
military transformation
legal reforms
economic development
energy security
environmental degradation
food security and safety
demographic trends
migration and urbanization
labour unrest
health and education
social inequalities
ethnic conflicts
Hong Kongs integration
cross-Strait relations.
Given its thorough and up-to-date assessment of major political, social and economic challenges facing China, this fully revised and substantially expanded new edition is an essential read for any student of Chinese studies.
Czeslaw Tubilewicz is a senior lecturer at the School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Critical Issues in
Contemporary China
Unity, Stability and Development
Second Edition
Edited by Czeslaw Tubilewicz
First published 2017
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Names: Tubilewicz, Czeslaw, 1968 editor.
Title: Critical issues in contemporary China: unity, stability
and development / edited by Czeslaw Tubilewicz.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. |
Earlier edition: 2006. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016028200| ISBN 9781138917347 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315689050 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: China Economic conditions 2000- | China Social
conditions 2000- | China Politics and government 2002
Classification: LCC HC427.9.C753 2017 | DDC 330.951dc23
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Contents
CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ
KERRY BROWN
YOU JI
XIONG PING AND PHILIP GRIFFITH
JANE GOLLEY
MONIQUE TAYLOR
WU FENGSHI AND RICHARD L. EDMONDS
ZHOU GUANQI
ROBERT ASH
TAN YAN
KONG TAO, JANE GOLLEY AND DONG LU
PARRY LEUNG
LI YINAN AND COLIN MACKERRAS
COLIN MACKERRAS
ALVIN Y. SO
CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ
Robert ASH is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a Professorial Fellow at the SOAS China Institute, the University of London, UK. He was Head of the Contemporary China Institute at SOAS Financial and Management Studies (19861995), and Director of the EUChina Academic Network (19972001) and of the SOAS Taiwan Studies Programme and its Centre of Taiwan Studies (19992013). He is the 2012 recipient of the Freedom Medal of Diplomacy from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China government. He has authored or co-authored 15 books. He has also published in numerous journals, including The China Quarterly and, most recently, China Economic Quarterly.
Kerry BROWN is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute, Kings College, London, UK. He is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Programme at Chatham House, London, UK. He has authored over 10 books, including CEO China: The Rise of Xi Jinping (2016), China and the New Maoists (2016) and China and the World: The Diplomacy of the Peoples Republic (2017). He has edited The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (20145) and The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Chinese (2017).
DONG Lu is an MA student at the Graduate School of Education, Peking University, China.
Richard Louis EDMONDS is a former professor at the University of Chicago, USA, Kings College and SOAS in the University of London, UK, and the University of Hong Kong. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996 to 2002. He has authored Macau (1989) and Patterns of Chinas Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Countrys Environmental Degradation and Protection (1994) and edited (or co-edited) five books, including most recently Chinas Embedded Activism (2007). He has also published in numerous academic journals, including The China Quarterly, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Urban Geography, Geography and The Geographical Journal.
Jane GOLLEY is an economist and Deputy Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University, Canberra. She has authored The Dynamics of Chinese Regional Development: Market Nature, State Nurture (2007). She has also recently published in China Economic Review, Energy Economics , The China Journal, The World Economy and Asian Population Studies.
Philip Barrington Clark GRIFFITH is Professor of Law at Sydney City School of Law, Australia. He has recently authored (together with A. Stewart, J. Banister and A. Liberman) Intellectual Property in Australia (5th edition: 2014) and (together with Jill McKeough and Kathy Bowrey) Intellectual Property Commentary and Materials (4th edition: 2007). He has published in numerous academic journals, including Journal of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Forum and Journal of Science and Technology Law.
KONG Tao is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Science Survey, Peking University, China. She has published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, China and World Economy and The China Journal.
