Books in the China Policy Series series

China is the world's largest Information and Communication Technology (ICT) exporter, having overtaken Japan and the European Union in 2003 and the US in 2004. This book examines how China has attained this leading position and presents an account of China's ICT development model with specific reference to the experiences of East Asian 'tigers'.

A major transformation of Chinese higher education has taken place. China is exceptional among lower income countries in using tertiary education as a development strategy on such a scale. This book evaluates the prospects for Chinese and foreign HE providers, regulators and other stakeholders.

This book looks at human security in ChinaΓÇÖs foreign relations. It discusses the concept and theory of human security, and their implications for China. The book goes on to analyse environmental security issues, including climate change and water resources, as well as looking at issues from an energy consumption perspective. Significant human security issues are then focussed on, including food safety, pandemic disease control, migration, and the human rights implications of ChinaΓÇÖs overseas investment.

The 1989 pro-democracy movement in China constituted a huge challenge to the survival of the Chinese communist regime. This book assesses the impact of the movement, and of the ensuing repression on the political evolution of the People¿s Republic of China. It discusses how the events of 1989 are remembered and have affected Chinäs international relations and diplomacy; how human rights, law enforcement, policing, and liberal thought have developed over two decades.

Examines the role of institutions in China's large-scale economic, social and political transformation. This book argues that, although the importance of institutions in China's economic growth and social development is widely acknowledged, exactly how institutions affect changes in particular national and historical settings is less understood.

Offers a systemic analysis of the foreign policy of China. This title demonstrates how domestic factors have profoundly shaped China's foreign policy, from the late Mao's era to the reform era, presenting its argument through an analysis of major cases of Chinese foreign policy.

Examines the status of trade unions in contemporary China, exploring the degree to which trade unions have been reformed as China is integrated into the global economy. With empirical research data, this book discusses the key question of how autonomous China's trade unions are.

China's economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in export industries. However, there has been growing concern about wages and labour standards in China. This book examines how wages are bargained, fought over and determined in China, exploring how the pattern of labour conflict has changed over time.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is one of the largest and most powerful political organizations, and China's rapid rise has allowed CCP to extend its influence throughout the globe. This book explores the CCP transformation as a form of 'organizational emperor', and its ability to survive potential democracy.

Focusing on one of the most influential scholars writing on international relations, Wang Gungwu, this book explores the limitations of Western international relations approaches to China, and explains China's IR from a non-Western perspective, and demonstrates how the study of Chinese experiences can enrich the IR field.

Provides an analysis of the Chinese Communist Party's discourse in the post-Tiananmen period which emphasises stability, and which has been used by the Party to legitimate its authority.

Examines China's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) revolution. This book explores the reality of ICT in China, showing clearly that whilst China remains a one-party state, with an ever-present and sophisticated regime of censorship, substantial social and political changes have taken place.

Presents a comprehensive survey of China's local administration. This book considers different kinds of local government units and their administrative functions - ranging from the provinces, centrally-administered municipalities and autonomous regions to prefectures, counties, townships and urban districts.

Examines Chinese power, comparing China with other important world powers, and considering how this is likely to develop in the future. This book identifies the foremost problems facing the Chinese state, and considers whether China is capable of overcoming these challenges, including whether communist rule can be sustained.

Examines environmental activism in China. This book analyzes the nature, characteristics, strategies, organizational modes and influence of a Chinese environmental movement. It highlights the specificities of Chinese environmental activism along with a comparison to the environmental movement in Western Europe and North America.

The island of Hainan was given provincial rank in 1988 and became the testing ground for experiments of an economic, political, and social nature that have received great attention from Beijing. This book provides an account of this transition, showing how Hainan casts important light on a number of issues in contemporary China studies.

China is encountering social problems with the rise of mass discontent and public protest. Focusing on why social tensions have arisen despite economic prosperity and how the state is responding, this book presents data about various social challenges facing China, including, unemployment, the health care crisis, and the rise of religion.

Explores China's place in the international order, from both the international perspective, and from the perspective within China. This book discusses how far the international order, as viewed by the United States and with the United States seeing itself as the single dominant power, applies to China.

Explores the historical development of China's political reform issues. This work is intended for students and researchers interested in the Chinese politics, Asian politics and political development in Asia.

As Chinese society becomes more open, and hopes rise that control by the Communist Party may become more relaxed, a great deal is expected from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the formation of civil society. This book discusses the position of NGOs within China.

In place of a distributive justice perspective which focuses simply on equal access to universities, this book presents a broader understanding of the relationship between Chinese higher education and economic and social change. The necessity for research on the place of universities in contemporary Chinese society may be seen from current debates about and policy towards issues of educational inequality at Chinese universities. Many questions arise as a consequence: What are the limitations of neo-liberalism in higher education policy and what are the alternatives? How has the Chinese government met the challenges of educational inequality, and what lessons may be learned from its recent initiatives? How may higher education enhance social justice in Chinese society given economic, social, and cultural inequality? What may be learned from the experience of Macau, Hong Kong, and of Taiwan in terms of achieving social justice in Chinese universities? These questions are considered by a group of leading scholars from both inside and outside China.

The European Union is China's largest trading partner, and Chinese views of the EU are of crucial importance in shaping how the relationship will develop in the future, especially as the new Chinese leadership takes power. This book presents the findings of an extensive research project into the views of both elite groups, in government, business, academia, media and social activists, and the Chinese public towards Europe and the European Union.

In China, social development has fallen far behind economic development. This book looks at why this is the case, and poses the question of whether the conditions, structures and institutions that have locked China into unbalanced development are changing to pave the way for the next stage of development.

This book presents a broader understanding of the relationship between Chinese higher education and economic and social change. It attempts to fill the unevenness in China's economic and social development and education through initiating a debate about Chinese higher education and social justice.

Much is written about the Chinese Communist Party, but without exploring the nature of the party and how it operates. This book provides an assessment of the current state of the Chinese Communist Party and demonstrates how embedded it is in all aspects of Chinese economy, society and politics, and how its position continues to be consolidated.

Chinäs recent phenomenal economic growth has been sustained primarily by Chinäs rapid and continuous industrialisation. Currently industry accounts for over two-thirds of Chinäs gross domestic product, and since 2009 China has been the world¿s largest exporter of manufactured products. This book explores the question of how far this industrial growth has been the product of government policies.