Book Description
This book explores the transformation of the Chinese capital both socially and physically during the final decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Anne-Marie Broudehoux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134360614
This book explores the transformation of the Chinese capital both socially and physically during the final decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Ray Yep
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1786431637
The trajectory and logic of urban development in post-Mao China have been shaped and defined by the contention between domestic and global capital, central and local state and social actors of different class status and endowment. This urban transformation process of historic proportion entails new rules for distribution and negotiation, novel perceptions of citizenship, as well as room for unprecedented spontaneity and creativity. Based on original research by leading experts, this book offers an updated and nuanced analysis of the new logic of urban governance and its implications.
Author : Philip P. Pan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1416537058
An inside analysis of modern cultural and political upheavals in China by a fluent Beijing correspondent describes the power struggles currently taking place between the party elite and supporters of democracy, the outcome of which the author predicts will significantly affect China's rise to a world super-power. 125,000 first printing.
Author : Fulong Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134162162
This innovative book provides the first integrated treatment of China’s market development, state regulation and the resulting transformation and creation of new urban spaces.
Author : Fulong Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 113411771X
With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material and covers key topics on Chinese urban development.
Author : Fulong Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134117701
With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development. Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the common wisdom of Chinese ‘gradualism’, the book covers a wide range of important topics, including: local land development the local state private-public partnership foreign investment urbanization ageing home ownership. Providing a clear appraisal of recent trends in Chinese urbanism, this book puts forward important new conceptual resources to fill the gap between the outdated model of the ‘Third World’ city and the globalizing cities of the West.
Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317966082
In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising superpower. The Pacific Rim will be the stage on which China initially displays its new hegemonic intentions, aspirations and ambitions. Thus in Post-Beijing 2008, the political, economic and cultural impact of Beijing 2008 on the geopolitical future of the Pacific Rim will be discussed. This perspective, analysed by some of the most distinguished academic commentators from some of the world's leading universities who are closely associated with the Pacific Rim (East and West), is original in focus and the analysis is pregnant with political possibilities. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : William A. Callahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0199604398
China is fast becoming the next superpower - a rise that presents a challenge to the world economically, politically and culturally. Drawing on extensive new Chinese sources, Professor Callahan sheds fascinating light on how Chinese people understand their changing place, and what that might mean for the world.
Author : Stephen Hamnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136639276
Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. But how resilient are these cities to the risks that they face? How can they manage continuing pressures for development and growth while reducing their vulnerability to a range of potential crises? And, given the tradition of top-down, centralized, state-directed planning which drove the economic growth of many of these cities in the last century, what prospects are there of them becoming more inclusive and sensitive to the diverse needs of their populations and to the importance of culture, heritage and local places in creating liveable cities?
Author : Teresa Wright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745691498
In recent decades, China has become a quasi-capitalist economic powerhouse. Yet it continues to be ruled by the same Communist Party-dominated government that has been in power since 1949. But how has China’s political system achieved such longevity? And what does its stability tell us about the future of authoritarian versus liberal democratic governance? In this detailed analysis of the deeply intertwined relationship between the ruling Communist Party and governing state, noted China expert Teresa Wright provides insightful answers to these important questions. Though many believe that the Chinese party-state has maintained its power despite its communist and authoritarian features, Wright argues that the key to its sustained success lies in its careful safeguarding of some key communist and authoritarian characteristics, while simultaneously becoming more open and responsive to public participation. She contends that China’s post-Mao party-state compares well to different forms of political rule, including liberal democratic government. It has fulfilled the necessary functions of a stable governing regime: satisfying key demographic groups and responding to public grievances; maintaining economic stability and growth; and delivering public services - without any real reduction in CCP power and influence. Questioning current understandings of the nature, strengths, and weaknesses of democracy and authoritarianism, this thought-provoking book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of Chinese politics and international relations.