China's rise : challenges and opportunities / / C. Fred Bergsten ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956917303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : Peterson Institute for International Economics, : Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2008
• ISBN: 1-281-79099-0; 9786611790998; 0-88132-487-6; 1-4356-9223-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BergstenC. Fred <1941->
• Disciplina: 330.951
• Soggetti: Democratization - China; China Economic conditions 2000-; China Foreign economic relations; China Politics and government 2002-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chronology of Main Events""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 Chinaâ€?s Challenge to the Global Economic Order""; ""The Systemic Challenge""; ""Global Implications""; ""A New Approach""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 2 China Debates Its Future ""; ""Role of Policy Intellectuals""; ""Current Dynamics""; ""Reevaluation of Reform""; ""Debating Development""; ""Policy Response""; ""Democracy Debated""; ""Official Line Weighs In""; ""Foreign Policy: Rise of Nationalism or Peaceful Rise?""; ""Looking Ahead""; ""Chapter 3 Democracy with Chinese Characteristics? Political Reform and the Future of the Chinese Communist Party""""Evolution of Chinaâ€?s Political Reform: Instrumental, Incremental, and Idiosyncratic""; ""Putting Theory into Practice""; ""Rhetoric Versus Reality""; ""Ongoing Support for the Party""; ""Conclusion and Recommendations""; ""Chapter 4 Center-Local Relations: Huâ€?s in Charge Here? ""; ""From Decentralization to Recentralization""; ""Current Factors Causing ; Center-Local Friction""; ""How Center-Local Relations Affect Key Policies (and Why the United States Should Care)""; ""What It Means for Hu and Wen""""Steps the Center Is Taking""; ""Implications for the United States and Policy Recommendations""; ""Chapter 5 Corruption in China: Crisis or Constant? ""; ""Corruption Rising to a Plateau""; ""Threat of “Local Kleptocraciesâ€?""; ""Is the Party Over?""; ""Causes of Corruption Debated""; ""Combating Corruptionâ€?Is China Campaigned Out?""; ""Conclusion and Recommendations""; ""Chapter 6 Sustaining Economic Growth in China ""; ""Sources of Chinaâ€?s Economic Growth""; ""Rethinking Chinaâ€?s Growth Strategy""; ""Promoting Consumption-Driven Growth""; ""Chinaâ€?s Pursuit of Consumption-Driven Growth""""Glass Half Full or Half Empty?""; ""Chapter 7 Energy Implications of Chinaâ€?s Growth ""; ""Evolution of Energy Demand in China""; ""Investment-Led Energy Surprise""; ""Local and Global Implications""; ""The Domestic Response""; ""The Energy Footprint of a Rebalanced Chinese Economy""; ""Conclusions and Policy Agenda""; ""Chapter 8 Why Does the United States Care about Taiwan? ""; ""Why Does China Care about Taiwan?""; ""Why Has the United States Cared about Taiwan?""; ""Why Does the United States Still Care about Taiwan?""; ""Limits to US Support""""Alternative Approaches to Dealing with the Taiwan Impasse""; ""How Should the United States Think about Taiwan Today?""; ""Chapter 9 Chinaâ€?s Military Modernization ""; ""Chinaâ€?s Assessment of Its Military Needs""; ""Key Elements of Chinaâ€?s Military Modernization""; ""Remaining Questions about Chinaâ€?s Military Modernization""; ""Future of PLA Modernization""; ""US Response to Chinaâ€?s Military Modernization""; ""Chapter 10 China and the World ""; ""Evolution of Goals and Principles Underlying China's Foreign Policy ""; ""Role of Soft Power in Chinese Foreign Policy""
• Sommario/riassunto: China has emerged as an economic powerhouse (projected to have the largest economy in the world in a little over a decade) and is taking an ever-increasing role on the world stage. China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities will help the United States and the rest of the world better comprehend the facts and dynamics underpinning China's rise-an understanding that becomes more and more important with each passing day. Additionally, the authors suggest actions both China and the United States can take that will not only maximize the opportunities for China's constructive integration into the international community but also help form a domestic consensus that will provide a stable foundation for such policies. Filled with facts for policymakers, this much-anticipated book's narrative-driven, accessible style will appeal to the general reader. This book is unique in that it analyzes the authoritative data on China's economy, foreign and domestic policy, and national security.

Deep China : The Moral Life of the Person / / Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957578603321
• Autore: Kleinman Arthur
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• ISBN: 9786613291899; 9781283291897; 1283291894; 9780520950511; 0520950518
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Classificazione: LC 56440; LC 58440
• Disciplina: 306.0951
• Soggetti: China -- Moral conditions; China -- Social conditions; China -- Social life and customs; Cultural psychiatry -- China; Ethnopsychology -- China; Group identity -- China; Identity (Psychology) -- China; Medical anthropology -- China; Medical anthropology - China; Cultural psychiatry - China; Ethnopsychology - China; Identity (Psychology) - China; Group identity - China; Investigative Techniques; Ethics; Culture; Psychology, Social; Socioeconomic Factors; Social Behavior; Psychology; Psychiatry; Sociology; Population Characteristics; Behavioral Sciences; Philosophy; Social Sciences; Humanities; Behavior; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Anthropology, Cultural; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities; Anthropology; Delivery of Health Care; Geography; Cultural Characteristics; Morals; Ethnopsychology; Social Conditions; Social Identification; Methods; Physical Anthropology; Asia, Eastern; Asia; Geographic Locations; China
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Remaking the Moral Person in a New China -- Chapter One. The Changing Moral Landscape -- Chapter Two. From Commodity of Death to Gift of Life -- Chapter Three. China's Sexual Revolution -- Chapter Four. Place Attachment, Communal Memory, and the Moral Underpinnings of Gentrification in Postreform Shanghai -- Chapter Five. Depression: Coming of Age in China -- Chapter Six. Suicide, a Modern Problem in China -- Chapter Seven. Stigma: HIV/AIDS, Mental Illness, and China's Nonpersons -- Chapter Eight. Quests for Meaning -- Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China's profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life.