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This book examines the impacts of China's urbanization on the country's economic development, clan culture, rural societies, minority resident areas, natural environment, women, and public policy reforms, drawing on official statistics, independent survey data, archives, and fieldwork research to do so. Adopting a cross-disciplinary perspective, the book places special emphasis on issues that have been neglected in prior studies, and provides up-to-date information, reports, and analyses based on the latest events. Further, it considers future directions and strategies regarding urban development, discusses regional urbanization in selected poor and "backward" western provinces, analyzes changes in traditional clan culture brought on by urbanization, and explores evolutions in local clan societies in the Qin and Han Dynasties when cities expanded and business flourished. Lastly, the book examines the effects of infrastructure-related determinants on urban expansion rates and urban land prices, demonstrates the ebbs and flows of public opinion regarding various environmental issues, discusses planned real estate tax reform, and assesses the impact of demographic and socioeconomic changes on young unmarried women.

Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality- Front Cover -- Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: What recovery? Whose recovery? Recovery as a disputed approach -- Introduction -- What recovery? -- Whose recovery? -- Central inquiries and method -- Recovery from what to where? -- Possible social forces impinging on Chinese service users' recovery journeys -- Overview of the book -- Chapter 2: Exploring social inequalities with the Capabilities Approach and Intersectionality Analysis -- Introduction -- A critical realist exploration -- Five reasons for using the Capabilities Approach -- Intersectionality Analysis and social location -- Towards a synthesis of the Capabilities Approach and Intersectionality Analysis -- Chapter 3: When things start to fall apart: social conditions and the loss of capabilities -- Introduction -- Positioning the service users -- Capabilities loss: social conditions and the deterioration of mental well-being -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Becoming a psychiatric patient -- Introduction -- Pathways to care: structure and process -- Language capability, interpretation services and assertiveness in exercising agency in medical encounters -- Receiving a diagnosis -- Interventions: what works and what doesn't -- Hospitalisation -- The 'incomplete' project of medicalisation and pragmatism in adopting explanatory models -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Life after shipwreck: social conditions for capabilities (re)development -- Introduction -- Building a life in the community -- Recovering from social conditions or further capability deprivation -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Stubbornly strive to be human: meanings of recovery, hope and adaptive preferences -- Introduction -- Sanism and the use of identities as life strategies

"This book examines the various stages of China';s development, in the economic, social, and political fields, relating theories and models of development to what is actually occurring in China, and discussing how China';s development is likely to progress going forward. It argues that China';s modernization hitherto can be characterized as "authoritarian development" -- a fusion of mixed economic institutions of varying types of ownership with social stability and political cohesiveness -- and that the present phase, where more emphasis is being given to social issues, is likely to lead on to a new phase where a more mature civil society and a more extensive middle class are likely to look for greater democratization. It presents an in-depth analysis of China';s changing social structure and civil society, explores the forces for and processes of democratization, and assesses the prospects for further democratization in the light of changing social structures."--Provided by publisher.

This concise illustrated volume presents a slice of Chinese military history that will appeal to Sinophiles, historians, strategists and the general public. Where Sun-Tzu discussed strategy and tactics, Mr. Wang introduces the weapons and techniques used in various periods of Chinese history as well as illustrating hallmark strategies through the stories of famous battles

An introduction of the data industry to the field of economics This book bridges the gap between economics and data science to help data scientists understand the economics of big data, and enable economists to analyze the data industry. It begins by explaining data resources and introduces the data asset. This book defines a data industry chain and enumerates data enterprises' business models, operating models, and developing models. The author describes five types of enterprise agglomerations, and multiple industrial cluster effects. A discussion on the establishment and development of data industry related laws and regulations is provided. In addition, this book discusses several scenarios on how to convert data driving forces into productivity that can then serve society. This book is designed to serve as a reference and training guide for data scientists, data-oriented managers and executives, entrepreneurs, scholars, and government employees.Defines and develops the concept of a 'Data Industry,' and explains the economics of data to data scientists and statisticiansIncludes numerous case studies and examples from a variety of industries and disciplinesServes as a useful guide for practitioners and entrepreneurs in the business of data technologyThe Data Industry: The Business and Economicsof Information and Big Data is a resource for practitioners in the data science industry, government, and students in economics, business, and statistics.Chunlei Tang, Ph.D., is a research fellow at Harvard University. She is the co-founder of Fudan's Institute for Data Industry and proposed the concept of the 'data industry'. She received a Ph.D. in Computer and Software Theory in 2012 and a Master of Software Engineering in 2006 from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Chunlei Tang, Ph.D., is a research fellow at Harvard University. She is the co-founder of Fudan's Institute for Data Industry and proposed the concept of the 'data industry'. She received a Ph.D. in Computer and Software Theory in 2012 and a Master of Software Engineering in 2006 from Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

During China's "socio-economic transition period", stretching from 1978 to the present day, the nation's social structure underwent enormous changes. The economic restructuring from a centrally-planned economy to a market-oriented one, combined with the retreat of the state administrative sphere from the labour market, gradually transformed the mechanisms of resource allocation. This has given rise to enlarging gaps between different social groups, which have led to an escalation in tensions between the higher and the lower social strata.In addition, the situation of Chinese women has also changed, with those in contemporary China in a quite different position from their "pre-communist", "traditional" counterparts. Over recent decades, more equalitarian policies have made a great deal of difference, not only to women's self-identification, but also to their social milieu. However, the female employment rate has gradually declined since the economic reforms began, meaning this period has had a major impact on the social status and conditions of Chinese women. These social transformations and differences between the genders have provided an unusual opportunity for scholars and researchers who are interested in social change. As such, this book examines the social structure of contemporary China, exploring how resources are distributed among the different social strata, and how these strata have transformed with the economic reforms and development. In addition, it also investigates the current socio-economic circumstances of Chinese women, especially since many female workers were laid off (xiagang) by state owned enterprises (SOEs) and collectively owned enterprises (COEs) during the "industrial restructuring". In confronting an ever more competitive market environment, has the situation of women degraded or progressed? Do all women face a similar

This volume is about how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. It attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests, on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand

Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Refugee in the Hyperghetto -- 1. War/Time -- 2. Housed in the Hyperghetto -- 3. Welfare Resistance -- 4. Workfare Encampments -- 5. Sweatshops of the Neoplantation -- 6. Motherhood -- Conclusion: "Unsettled" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard IO-table based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. Using Chinese firm census data for both manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained optimization techniques, we split the conventional IO table into sub-accounts, which are used to estimate direct and indirect domestic value added in exports of different types of firm. We find that in China, both state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and small and medium domestic private enterprises (SMEs) have much higher shares of indirect exports and ratios of value-added exports to gross exports (VAX), compared to foreign-invested and large domestic private firms. Based on IO tables for both 2007 and 2010, we find increasing VAX ratios for all firm types, particularly for SOEs. By extending the method proposed by Antràs et al. (2012), we find that SOEs are consistently more upstream while SMEs are consistently more downstream within industries. These findings suggest that SOEs still play an important role in shaping China's exports.