Another Invisible Hand
Another Invisible Hand

Author: Li Peilin

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-05-05

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1000578852

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There have been two “hands” exerting influence on China’s resource allocation and economic development: one is tangible (government intervention), and the other intangible (market regulation). This book focuses on a third factor, “another invisible hand,” which is social structure transformation. This two part study explores the process of China's social structure transformation while conducting a theoretical examination of its characteristics. The first part presents a theoretical analysis of the nature of social structure transformation and its economic consequences, both in general and within the Chinese context. The second part examines the transformation of urban and rural societies in contemporary China from different perspectives; including state-owned enterprises, laid-off urban workers, rural migrants, and rural industrialization. The book is written for scholars, researchers and students across the social sciences and area studies, including Sociology, Urban studies, Rural studies, Contemporary China studies and all those who are interested in economic development in China.

The Making of the Chinese Middle Class
The Making of the Chinese Middle Class

Author: Jean-Louis Rocca

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-07

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1137393394

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This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach. With the development of the Chinese economy, a new group of middle wage earners appeared. Chinese social scientists and state institutions promoted the idea that China needs a middle class to achieve modernization. Middle class members are defined—and define themselves—as good consumers, educated people, politically engaged but reasonable citizens. As such, the making of the middle class is the result of three convergent phenomena: an attempt to define the middle class, a process of civilization, and the development of protest movements. The making of the Chinese middle class, Rocca argues, is a way to end the stalemate that modern Chinese society is facing, in particular the necessity to democratize without introducing an election system.

China’s 40 Years of Reform
China’s 40 Years of Reform

Author: Wei Liu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-02-14

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9811985057

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This book focuses on the key issues around Chinese reform in the past 40 years, including economic structure upgrading, finance reform, enterprise ecology, village modernization, ecological development, income structure, global governance, BRI, and governance model. It collects the most important concerns and reveals the deep logic behind the reform. By reading this book, it helps readers to grasp the engine of China’s continuous growth toward modernization in the four decades.

Essentials of Governance
Essentials of Governance

Author: Zhongmin WU

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-07-19

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9004468595

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A collection of twelve lectures which studies social contradictions in traditional and modern society and analyzes how their special laws have become applicable during periods of transition in contemporary China.

The Middle Income Group in China and Russia
The Middle Income Group in China and Russia

Author: Peilin Li

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 9811614644

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This book includes a series of papers that mainly discuss the proposition of “double middle-income traps.” It analyzes various perspectives of middle-income groups of Russia and China including employment, education, consumption, mobility, social insurance, social values and identity, social and political participation. This book further indicates that the expansion of middle-income groups plays an important role in promoting mass consumption, maintaining continuous and stable economic growth, and overcoming the double middle-income traps. The middle class and middle-income group generally owns higher economic capital and cultural capital and is proved to be the main strength in expanding consumption by many empirical studies. However, the middle class and middle-income group has currently encountered hindrance to upward mobility, life quality, social security and class identity, which prevent the expansion of the middle-income group and improvement of social structure. Through comparing the middle-income groups of these two countries, this book gives us a panoramic view of their social and economic condition. Successfully combining theory and concrete practical guidelines, the book offers a valuable resource for all those active in this dynamic field. The book is important for students, scholars, researchers and professionals in economic and social science fields.

Post-Western Sociology - From China to Europe
Post-Western Sociology - From China to Europe

Author: Laurence Roulleau-Berger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1351185330

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This book is rooted in an epistemological approach to sociology in which the boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies are acknowledged and built on. It argues that knowledge is organised in conceptual spaces linked to paradigms and programmes which in turn are linked to ethnocentred knowledge processes; that until recently Western approaches, including Post-Colonial, French Social Science and American approaches, have dominated non-Western theories; and that Western theories have sometimes seemed incapable of explaining phenomena produced in other societies. It goes on to argue that the blurring of boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies is very important; and that such a Post-Western approach will mean co-production and co-construction of common knowledge, the recognition of ignored or forgotten scientific cultures and a "global change" in sociology which imposes theoretical and methodological detours, displacements, reversals and conversions. The book brings together a wide range of Western and Chinese sociologists who explore the consequences of this new approach in relation to many different issues and aspects of sociology.

Special Economic Zones and China’s Development Path
Special Economic Zones and China’s Development Path

Author: Yitao Tao

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-05

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9811032203

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The book provides insights into the development of special economic zones, which are an important factor in the political and economic reforms in China. It discusses a number of topics, including the history and the modernization of special economic zones in China, the contributions of special economic zones to China’s economic success and cultural change, as well as the new mission of special economic zones in the current economic-social context. Applying institutional economics and growth poles theory, it discusses the mechanism of China’s path driven by special economic zone practices. The book is a valuable resource for researchers interested in special economic zones, political and institutional reforms and economic transformation during China’s modernization.

Income Distribution And China's Economic "New Normal"
Income Distribution And China's Economic

Author: Haiyuan Wan

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9811200661

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As the Chinese economy has moved to a 'New Normal' of slower growth and changed model of development, its income distribution is being affected in a number of ways. What exactly are the impacts brought by the new changes? How should we view China's income distribution on the whole? What trend will we see in the future? With regard to these and other questions that arise against the backdrop of the economic 'New Normal', the book provides an in-depth analysis of the new issues, characteristics and trends in relation to income growth rates, income and wealth gaps, and the proportion of personal income in China.