Reform And Development In China: After 40 Years

by Wei Shan, Lijun Yang

Overview

This book provides a comprehensive review of China's experience in reform and opening up from political, social, and economic perspectives. It attempts to engage existing scholarly debates in three areas — first, how the party-state has evolved in the past four decades and whether it remains a Leninist system or has departed from this system; second, how public attitudes, values and behavior have been intertwined with institutional change, and how the state is expanding its welfare coverage to enhance regime legitimacy. Second, how China has attempted to explore new engines for its growth, with consideration towards environmental protection and technological progress.Chapters in this book are selected from three years of conference presentations co-organized by the Institute of Public Policy (IPP) at the South China University of Technology and UNESCO. Since 2014, IPP and UNESCO have co-hosted a series of annual international conferences and invited leading scholars from China, Europe, and the US to discuss the major challenges to China and the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813274143
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/12/2019
Series:	Series On Contemporary China , #44
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

Table of Contents

About the Editors v

Introduction ix

Part 1 The Reform of the Party-State 1

Chapter 1 China as an Innovative State and its Implications for the World ZHENG Yongnian 3

Chapter 2 A Turning Point (Maybe) in Reform and Opening Up Joseph Fewsmith 21

Chapter 3 Social and Political Mobility of State-owned Enterprise Executives in the Reform Era: The Rise of China's Supermanagers Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard 31

Chapter 4 Political Meritocracy and Democracy: Confucian Meritocratic Democracy? HE Baogang 51

Part 2 Mass Attitudes and Social Policy 69

Chapter 5 Public Policy Satisfaction in Urban China: Evidence from Survey Data TANG Wenfang Dong "Erico" YU 71

Chapter 6 The Chinese Voter: 1993-2013 SHAN Wei TANG Wenfang 107

Chapter 7 China's Social Policy Reform: The Perspective of "Fragmented Developmentalism" Zhao Litao 129

Chapter 8 Evolution of Poverty Reduction Strategies in Rural China QIAN Jiwei 155

Part 3 Development: Towards Green and Technology-Driven Growth 185

Chapter 9 The Rise of New Green Industries: A Dynamic View of China's (and India's) Eco-Modernizing Experience John A. Mathews 187

Chapter 10 China's Bet on Technological Progress as an Engine of Sustainable Growth LU Ding 215

Index 253