State-Society Relations and Governance in China

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Free Download State-Society Relations and in By Sujian Guo; Nele Noesselt; John Creed; Sheng Ding; Joseph Fewsmith; David S. G. Goodman; Wenshan Jia; Guoli Liu; Josef Gregory Mahoney; Edwin E. Moise
| 239 Pages | ISBN: 0739191799 | EPUB | 1 MB
State-society relations and governance are closely related areas of study and have become important topics in the social sciences in the past decades, not only in developed countries but also in the world. In China, state-society relations have been changing in the new of reform and opening, and governance has become a central concern in and in academia. In this wide-ranging collection of , written by scholars from both inside and outside China, the contributors explore the complexity of the changing state-society relationship and the modes and of governance in China by combining exploration and empirical case studies.
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Energy and Critical Mineral Security in China

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English | 2025 | ISBN: 9819671469 | 423 Pages | PDF (True) | 36 MB
This book focuses on the hotspots and frontier issues of China's energy and critical mineral security strategy, aiming to develop a general framework to understand the new security landscape of constructing a modern energy system and accelerating the low-carbon transition. It attempts to sketch out the core issues of energy and critical mineral security in China's current and future low-carbon transition process and then bring forward a combination of and empirical analysis on the issues. This book ranges from general discussions of current essential issues in China's energy and critical mineral security to analysis of key themes, combining the strategy and of resource sectors with the experience of the energy and industry. It aims to present an overview of energy and critical mineral security in China's low-carbon transition, facilitating the demands for both academic research and -making. While the can provide useful knowledge to policymakers, the book can also inspire new research in the relevant area.
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Class and the Communist Party of China, 1978-2021 Reform and Market Socialism

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Free Download Marc Blecher, "Class and the Communist Party of , -: Reform and Market Socialism"
English | ISBN: 1032185295 | | 216 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
By examining the changing economy in China through detailed studies of the peasantry, workers, middle classes, and the dominant class, this volume reveals the Communist Party of China's (CCP's) impact on social in China between 1978 and 2021.
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Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921-1978 Revolution and Social Change

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English | ISBN: 1032185090 | | 252 pages | | 388 KB
Examining the interaction between the Communist Party of China (CCP) and specific social categories (including peasants, workers, the middle classes, and the dominant class), with a on class and class discourse, this volume analyses the CCP's impact on social change in China between 1921 and 1978.
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Western Technology and China's Industrial Development Steamship Building in Nineteenth-Century China, 1828-1895

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Free Download Hsien-Ch'un Wang, "Western Technology and 's : Steamship in Nineteenth-Century China, 1828-1895"
English | ISBN: 1137599030 | | 248 pages | | 11 MB
This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much emphasis on but ignores the -scientific and institutional requirements for launching such an endeavor. It examines how translations broke linguistic and conceptual barriers and brought new a understanding of heat to the Chinese readership. It also explores how the Fuzhou Navy Yard's shipbuilding and training program trained China's first of shipbuilding workers and engineers. It argues that conservatism against technology was not to blame for China's slow development in steamship building. Rather, it was government officials' failure to realize the scale of institutional and techno-scientific changes required in importing and disperse new knowledge and skills.
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