Covering a vast range of daily life - from homeowner organisations and the users of Internet cafés to self-directed professionals and informed consumers - the essays in 'Privatizing China' create a compelling picture of the burgeoning awareness of self-governing within the posts…
Privatizing China: socialism from afar
Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This combination of self-determination and socialism from afar has incited profound changes in the ways individuals think and act in dif…
Based on years of research, hundreds of field interviews, and a sweeping nationwide survey of private entrepreneurs, this text explodes the conventional wisdom about the relationship between economic liberalism and political freedom.
Based on years of research, hundreds of field interviews, and a sweeping nationwide survey of private entrepreneurs, this text explodes the conventional wisdom about the relationship between economic liberalism and political freedom.
The development of the Chinese multinational is a new feature of globalization. This book deals in the first section with the political economy and governance of China. The contemporary discourse of the internationalization of Chinese enterprises is discussed from different theo…
Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world
Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.
The changing of the guard : the end of the western world -- The rise of the West -- Japan : modern but hardly western -- China's ignominy -- Contested modernity : the age of China -- China as an economic superpower -- A civilization-state -- The Middle Kingdom mentality -- China…
Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.