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China's Provinces in Reform : Class, Community and Political Culture

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2002

Online-Ressource (293 p)

Englisch

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of maps; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; China in reform: the view from the provinces; Guangxi: towards Southwest China and Southeast Asia; Hainan: communal politics and the struggle for identity; Liaoning: struggling with the burdens of the past; Shandong: the political economy of development and inequality; Shanghai: an alternative centre?; Sichuan: disadvantage and mismanagement in the Heavenly Kingdom; Zhejiang: paradoxes of restoration, reinvigoration and renewal; Index

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: China's Provinces in Reform : Class, Community and Political Culture

978-0-415-16403-0

978-0-415-16403-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-0-203-44539-6 ( : 216.86 (NL))

JQ1519.A598 C5 1997eb ; JQ1519.A598

306.20951 ; 306.2/0951     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Community life ; China ; Provinces ; Political culture ; China ; Provinces ; Social classes ; China ; Provinces ; State governments ; China ; Electronic books

China is a far larger and more diverse country than many people in the West realise. The provinces that make up the country are considerable social, economic and political systems in their own right. They are comparable in size and complexity to European states.China's Provinces in Reform is concerned with the impact of economic reform and social and politial change within the provinces at the immediate sub-central level of the People's Republic of China. One of the main aims of this book is to question over-generalizations about China's development in the reform era. However, the provincial a