Building an Olive-Shaped Society
Author: CICC Research, CICC Global Institute
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9819708044
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Another Invisible Hand
Author: Li Peilin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-05-05
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1000578852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere 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
Author: Jean-Louis Rocca
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-07
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1137393394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Reshaping of China’s Industry Chains
Author: CICC Research, CICC Global Institute
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9819716470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssentials of Governance
Author: Zhongmin WU
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-07-19
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9004468595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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 Rise of the Middle Class in Contemporary China
Author: Hainan Su
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-01-01
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9811950997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book portrays the middle class in contemporary China with plain language and precise professional knowledge in an all-round, broad and responsible way from the perspectives of income, property, profession, education, consumption, investment, physiological and behavioral characteristics, history and development. It gives, in a logical order, the reasons for stimulating the rise of the middle class in contemporary China. It emphatically describes what the middle class is and what the middle class in contemporary China looks like. It also analyzes whether the middle class can rise in China and sheds light on the basic thinking, medium and long-term goals, main measures and current work priorities for achieving full rise of the middle class in contemporary China. As China becomes the world's largest economy, the new middle class will be the Chinese people facing the world; as such, this book will be of interest to sociologists, sinologists, political scientists, and economists.
China’s 40 Years of Reform
Author: Wei Liu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-02-14
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9811985057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Middle Income Group in China and Russia
Author: Peilin Li
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-08-16
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9811614644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Special Economic Zones and China’s Development Path
Author: Yitao Tao
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-10-05
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9811032203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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"
Author: Haiyuan Wan
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2019-08-15
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9811200661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs 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.
