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The Chinese economy
Stephen Morgan provides a comprehensive analysis of China's unprecedented economic transformation and the specifics of its development, including issues such as well-being and human capital, inequality, ageing, urbanization and sustainability, consumerism, health, education and the environment.
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Handbook of contemporary China
Handbook of Contemporary China is a convenient reference in one single volume that offers comprehensive overviews of crucial cultural dimensions and key institutions of China. The Handbook covers a wide range of topics including: development model, politics, society, law, population, ethnicity, foreign relations, environment, urbanization, higher education, religion, literature, cinema, leisure and consumption, and internet and society. It is the first of its kind in the field of China Studies that traces the historical evolutions and profound transformations over the last three decades that ultimately allow China to achieve global ascendance. Offering a multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted coverage of the seachanges of the Chinese reform, the Handbook is lucidly written and concisely presented to serve as a handy guide for both professionals and the general public to gain a quick and reliable understanding of the complexities of China.
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China in the Local and Global Economy
The history of China dates back thousands of years, with periods of decline followed by periods of growth and innovation. This book puts the last 50 years – China’s most recent period of growth – into perspective. It explores the changing national and international connections within China and between China and other parts of the world, and their importance for understanding the past, current and future developments of the Chinese economy.
The book brings together leading international contributors from China, Japan and Europe to consider the historical developments of these connections, the importance of natural and man-made connections for the Chinese economy, the role of institutions and policies for understanding the connections and their sustainability.
This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers focusing on China, economics, geography or international trade.
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Traps embraced or escaped
Countries commencing industrialization with relatively low levels of agricultural productivity, hence low wages, enjoy advantages that can also prove host to daunting challenges. The chief advantage is a relatively elastic supply of labor for manufacturing; the chief challenge is how to free up farm labor for factory employment through the raising of labor productivity in farming. Key to raising agricultural labor productivity is providing incentives to increase effort levels including hours worked — access to markets being crucial — and improving the quality of labor as measured by health indicators and educational attainment. The willingness of elites to promote improvements in infrastructure — physical infrastructure in the form of roads and railroads and hydroelectric systems; human capital enhancing infrastructure augmenting the educational attainment and health of populations in rural areas; and financial infrastructure — and to invest directly in factories is crucial to the process by which labor is transferred from farming to manufacturing activities. During the period 1850 to 1935 elites in China tended to resist the requisite changes while elites in Japan did not. This legacy played a crucial role in shaping the nature of post-1950 economic development in the two countries.
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Let there be light : how electricity made modern Hong Kong
\"Electricity was key to Hong Kong's success. Hong Kong had one of the world's highest economic growth rates from the 1940s through the 1980s, due in large part to an ample supply of electricity at a time when most of Asia struggled to power factories, let alone light homes, giving it a ten-year head start on its East Asian rivals. This macro-invention made possible Hong Kong's development from a colonial port of middling importance to one of the world's most important exporters; it played a role in the handover of Hong Kong by Britain to China; and it was central to Hong Kong's emergence as an explicitly anti-Communist Cold War capitalist powerhouse. Let There Be Light is the first history of electrification in Hong Kong and one of the first in East or Southeast Asia. Focusing on China Light & Power (CLP) and its longtime chairman Lawrence Kadoorie, the project follows the company's evolution against the backdrop of Hong Kong's shifting relations with China and Britain through the twentieth century. Mark L. Clifford explores the avowedly laissez-faire Hong Kong's attempt to nationalize electricity companies, as well as the development of civil society in Hong Kong-which took place as the colony struggled to absorb refugees from China's 1949 revolution. Tracing the history of electricity in Hong Kong across tens of thousands of pages of newly available archives, Let There Be Light looks at how electricity shaped various postwar developments in Hong Kong in business, in society, and in politics\"-- Provided by publisher.
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China in the Local and Global Economy
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Part I Historical connections -- 1 China as a nation -- 2 Changing structure of the Chinese economy -- 3 The rise of China -- Part II Geographical connections -- 4 China and geography -- 5 Industrialisation, urbanisation and migration in China -- 6 International trade and supply chains -- Part III Policy connections -- 7 Chinese institutions -- 8 Macroeconomic policies in the People's Republic of China -- 9 Chinese infrastructure -- Part IV Future connections and sustainability -- 10 Demography and inequality in China -- 11 Sustainability in China -- 12 China's emerging global role -- Index.
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