China! Inside the People's Republic
Title | China! Inside the People's Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The People's Republic of China Today
Title | The People's Republic of China Today PDF eBook |
Author | Zhiqun Zhu |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9814313505 |
Despite the significant progress it had achieved in the past 60 years, especially in the past 30 years since Deng Xiaoping's reform initiatives in the late 1970s, China faces daunting challenges today. These challenges include, among others, a rigid political system that does not match economic vibrancy, uneven economic growth and widening income gap, a graying population, environmental degradation, potential social instability, ethnic tensions and separatist movement, poor international image, and military modernization. Based on papers originally presented at an international conference held at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC), this book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative assessment of the PRC's political, economic, social, ethnic, energy, security, military, diplomatic and other developments and challenges today. Contributed by scholars and experts in political science, international relations, economics, public administration, history, mass communication, psychology, and diplomacy, the book focuses on the efforts needed by China to grow in a sustainable manner and to become a respected global power. With each chapter addressing a different and yet an inter-related issue of the PRC's development, this book aims to make a significant contribution to the understanding of key challenges the country faces today as it strives to become a global power.
Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China
Title | Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet Evans |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780847695119 |
Provides an innovative reinterpretation of the cultural revolution through the medium of the poster -- a major component of popular print culture in China.
Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China
Title | Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China PDF eBook |
Author | Minglang Zhou |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2004-08-27 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1402080387 |
Language matters in China. It is about power, identity, opportunities, and, above all, passion and nationalism. During the past five decades China’s language engineering projects transformed its linguistic landscape, affecting over one billion people’s lives, including both the majority and minority populations. The Han majority have been juggling between their home vernaculars and the official speech, Putonghua – a speech of no native speakers – and reading their way through a labyrinth of the traditional, simplified, and Pinyin (Roman) scripts. Moreover, the various minority groups have been struggling between their native languages and Chinese, maintaining the former for their heritages and identities and learning the latter for quality education and socioeconomic advancement. The contributors of this volume provide the first comprehensive scrutiny of this sweeping linguistic revolution from three unique perspectives. First, outside scholars critically question the parities between constitutional rights and actual practices and between policies and outcomes. Second, inside policy practitioners review their own project involvements and inside politics, pondering over missteps, undergoing soul-searching, and theorizing their personal experiences. Third, scholars of minority origin give inside views of policy implementations and challenges in their home communities. The volume sheds light on the complexity of language policy making and implementing as well as on the politics and ideology of language in contemporary China.
Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China
Title | Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China PDF eBook |
Author | Glen Peterson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136638571 |
Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as "domestic Overseas Chinese". They include family members of overseas migrants who remained in China, refugees fleeing persecution, and former migrants and their descendants who "returned" to the People’s Republic in order to pursue higher education and to serve their motherland. In this book, Glen Peterson describes the nature of the official state project by which domestic Overseas Chinese were incorporated into the economic, political and social structures of the People’s Republic of China in the 1950s, examines the multiple and contradictory meanings associated with being "domestic Overseas Chinese", and explores how "domestic Overseas Chineseness" as political category shaped social experiences and identities. This book fills an important gap in the literature on Chinese migration and Chinese transnationalism and will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars of these subjects, as well as Chinese history and Asian Studies more generally.
The Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China
Title | The Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China PDF eBook |
Author | Durham Law School |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 477 |
Release | 2021-10-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9004468285 |
This contribution provides the important and timely bilingual version of the Chinese Civil Code and the Supreme People’s Court’s Judicial Interpretation of the Temporal Effect of the Civil Code. Providing translations by a diverse group of esteemed legal scholars, on Contract Law, Tort Law, Marriage, Family and Succession Law, General and Personality Provisions and Property Law, this unique resource will be important for all those with an interest in Chinese Law.
The People's Republic of China Since 1949
Title | The People's Republic of China Since 1949 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Lynch |
Publisher | Hodder Education |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780340688533 |
This work charts China's remarkable and tumultuous development from the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949 through to the hand-over of Hong Kong by Britain. Particular coverage is given to the country's bitter struggle with the USSR for leadership of the international revolution and to its developing role as a world power. Sections on China's international relations focus on various issues including the Korean War, the on-going Taiwan question, the Sino-Indian war and the Sino-American rapprochement. In addition the author analyzes Mao's status as a political leader and discusses the importance of the Great Leap Forward, Mao's five-year plans and the concept of permanent revolution. The volume also incorporates a historiography and a selection of source-based and essay questions.