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| China's Economic Transformation |
Will China's recent economic growth continue at the same rate? For how long? What obstacles lie in the way of sustained growth? Who gains and why? Gregory Chow covers these and many other issues.
- Provides a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the historical, institutional and theoretical factors that have contributed to China's economic success
- Reveals new findings concerning the roles of market institutions, Chinese human capital, private ownership, forms of government, political conditions, and bureaucratic economic institutions
- The new edition covers a diverse set of important issues: environmental restraints; income distribution; rural poverty; the education system; healthcare; exchange rate policies; monetary policies; and financial regulation.
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China in Copenhagen: Week one
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Week one of the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, which aims to draw up a treaty to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, is almost up and we've been following it closely to bring you a summary of what's being said about China's role. First off, for everything you always wanted to know about Copenhagen (but were too afraid to ask), The Guardian is a fantastic vessel of information
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China: the decade's most read news story
Wednesday's China Daily It was hard to miss this week's revelation that China has been this decade's most read news story, thanks to statistics produced by the Global Language Monitor . Trumping the invasion of Iraq, the number two story, by 400%, and leaving other catastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the war in Afghanistan and the global economic crisis in the top ten,
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Mongolian Neo-Nazis afraid "Foreigners... might start taking our women"
Photo by Flickr user bartpogoda It looks like India's not the only neighbor with a bizzare growing component of Neo-Nazi groups and sympathizers, Mongolia Neo-Nazis are on the rise too... and their main target isn't the jews, it's the Chinese. From the Guardian comes an amazing story of the growth of Neo-Nazi groups in Mongolia, which focus on protecting the 3-million or so "pure
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"King of Xinjiang" Wang Lequan replaced by man with "a spirit of creative thought"
Wang Lequan. Photo by voanews.com
Zhang Chunxian. Photo by enghunan.gov.cn The long-time governor of Xinjiang, Wang Lequan, has been removed from his post and replaced by Zhang Chunxian, the 57-year-old party chief of Hunan province . The hardline Communist Party chief, popularly termed the "King of Xinjiang" due to his leadership style, has been Xinjiang's governor for
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More tech companies supporting the GFW
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Google and Yahoo have long been lambasted for the censorship policies they employ in China to appease the CCP, particularly when Yahoo handed over email information to party officials in order to convict a Chinese journalist. Now critics have shifted their attention to Microsoft's Bing search engine. The site has been accused of sanitizing results - any searches in simplified Chinese
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Shanghai actually convincing migrant workers that girl babies are good too
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Finally some good news on the gender imbalance front, if only in Shanghai. It seems that the city's population officials are increasingly optimistic about the boy-girl ratio now that it's implemented specific policies for migrant workers, the most likely group to contribute to the dearth of female infants. These policies include enhanced education, subsidies and more training opportunities for
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China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker
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A Tibetan documentary filmmaker has been sentenced to six years for a film he made that was critical of Beijing’s policies in Tibet. From the Guardian:Dhongdup Wangchen and his friend Golog Jigme, a monk, were detained shortly after completing Leaving Fear Behind, which highlighted Tibetan anger with Chinese policies before the Olympics. The tapes had [...]
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China Telecom To Lower CDMA Roaming Fees In Taiwan, Macau
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Following the cancellation of incoming call fees for some of its users from October 1, 2009, China Telecom has announced new policies to reduce the roaming fees for its CDMA users visiting Taiwan and Macau from November 1, 2009.According to the new policies, China Telecom's CDMA network users who roam to the networks of Taiwan [...]
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