China: the many facets of demographic change
In: Brown University studies in population and development
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In: Brown University studies in population and development
"In the last four decades, China's economy and living standards have completely transformed. Wang Feng charts the origins, forces, and consequences of this meteoric rise in prosperity, shifting our perspective toward rural populations as drivers of global change, and anticipating possible headwinds for future growth"--
In: Studies in Social Inequality
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In: Studies in social inequality
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 86, S. 175-177
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: NUS Centre for Maritime Law Working Paper 21/01
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In: Journal of Chinese political science, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 179-180
ISSN: 1874-6357
In: NUS - Centre for Maritime Law Working Paper No. 17/05
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Working paper
In: Politics, culture and socialization: PCS, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 120-132
ISSN: 2196-1417
In: Urban affairs review, Band 50, Heft 3, S. 311-339
ISSN: 1552-8332
Chinese homeowner associations (HOAs) are citizen-initiated, self-governing neighborhood organizations that emerged very recently in urban China. HOAs take various legal, political, and social actions to deal with neighborhood issues. However, there are large discrepancies in the effectiveness of these actions. Using data collected from in-depth interviews with leaders of 91 registered HOAs in Beijing, this study investigates the contextual and organizational factors that explain this heterogeneity of outcome. The results show that the factors affecting HOAs' ability to solve the two most prominent types of neighborhood issue—issues involving developers, and issues involving property management companies—are quite different. Issues involving property management companies are more effectively solved by mobilizing organization resources and encouraging resident participation. Solving developer-related issues, however, requires broader legal and political support.
In: Politics, culture and socialization: research, theory, methods, book reviews, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 120-132
ISSN: 1866-3427
Faction in politics is a long-standing objective phenomenon in human political life. Party has made factions public and legal. Clique is only a kind of small group struggling for private interests. Derived from faction, party is different from faction because party has its own clear objective, well-organized structure and discipline. Without getting rid of minor faction, party has to struggle against factionalism after its coming into being. A proletariat party has also to face the temptation of factionalism and keep politics focused on the benefit of the people in general. The nature of Chinese proletariat party decides there is no space for the development of major factionalism. Chinese culture from ancient times demonstrates that every empire was destroyed from within by factions. In order to create cultural harmony in China and prevent regime destruction, strong factions from within must be avoided. Western political culture analysis shows that an environment developed which was favorable to two and multiple parties. Chinese culture never produced such a condition. Adapted from the source document.
In: Population and development review, Band 37, Heft s1, S. 173-190
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 109, Heft 728, S. 244-251
ISSN: 1944-785X
China's population is likely to peak less than 15 years from now, below a maximum of 1.4 billion. After that will come a prolonged, even indefinite, population decline and a period of accelerated aging.
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 109, Heft 728, S. 244-251
ISSN: 0011-3530
Enthält außerdem: Hvistendahl, Mara: Why China's gender gap persists. - S. 248-249
World Affairs Online
In: Alternatives Internationales, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 37-37