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2014, ALTitude, 7(1), 6
This is a book review of Tom Scovel's (2012) The Year China Changed (Tate Publishing).
International Journal of China Studies, 2010
China is a country in great transformation. Over the last three decades the highly remarkable economic performance of the once low-income and inward-looking state of China has attracted increasing interest from academics and policymakers. China’s astounding transformation is reflected not only in her economy, but also in her social changes in the past few decades, and this inevitably is also going to have implications for the country’s domestic sociopolitical development. For instance, the country’s breakneck economic transformation and the accompanying income and wealth disparities could be engendering increasingly volatile intergroup relations that would result in intensified resource contest which in turn may see groups coalesce along socioracial and ascriptive lines and thus further polarized by such divides, aggravated by transnational influences brought about by the selfsame globalization that has ironically contributed to her very economic “miracle” in the first place. Adapting Green’s change process model (2008) and Reeler’s threefold theory of social change (2007) to the China context, this paper investigates how various dimensions of social change have been engendered by the three decades of Chinese economic reform and how these various facets of social change are impacting on the coming direction and trajectory of the country’s socioeconomic and political transformation, how the interplay of State policy and societal response within the context of the exigencies engendered by the country’s continued odyssey of development, modernization and reform is shaping the future of the civil society, and how from both the theoretical and empirical perspectives the complex polity-economy-society nexus involved in the transformation of modern China are having wider ramifications for the country’s future. <https://www.dropbox.com/s/tz4o1sfo9nu0l2p/IJCS-V1N2-final-yeoh-socialtransformation.pdf>
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Towards Pax Sinica? - China's Rise and Transformation: Impacts and Implications, 2009
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh (2009), "Introduction – China's Rise and Transformation", in Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh (ed.), Towards Pax Sinica? - China's Rise and Transformation: Impacts and Implications, Kuala Lumpur: Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, pp. 3-19. <https://www.dropbox.com/s/tjaeazhegvbbcq9/paxsinica-chapter1-yeoh-riseandtransformation.pdf>
The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2008
Over the last three decades the highly remarkable economic performance of the once low-income and inward-looking country of China has attracted increasing interest from academics and policy-makers. However, beyond the stated intention of fostering modernisation and marketisation, China's reform and transformation have not been achieved in accordance with an agreed and clearly established blueprint. It has been a result of policies and ideas formulated and tested as marketbased reforms continued to push direct administrative management back into the past. At the same time as domestic economic reform and attendant social transformation were progressing at impressive speed, China has emerged as a regional and global power. The transformation of China's international profile has been one of the most pivotal changes in the contemporary world. It is a change that has given rise to much debate over the weight to be given to domestic and external forces in explaining China's current world position. <https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/cjas/article/view/1894/2425> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/sodxolz9dtho3jr/emileyeoh-katehannan-intro-CJAS-V26N2-2008-1894-8913-1-PB.pdf>
China has long provided observers in the West with a host of extremes and paradoxes to ponder, a nominally communist authoritarian political system which is nevertheless flexible enough to accommodate a new strain of " red capitalism " and while some fete its record breaking economy as it looks set to outstrip the US in GDP terms, others point to the strains in its banking system and predict a crisis of epic proportions. One thing is for certain, Jonathan Fenby has written this polemic at the most exciting time to be studying China's engagement with the rest of the world, as the country continues to press its aggressive economic ambitions alongside a cautious diplomatic and military strategy, all in the shadow of rising political tensions in East Asia. The book neatly summarizes China's recent history, propagating the theory that China could outpace the USA to become the world's foremost power if it continues to follow the trajectory of the last 30 years, before going to demolish that same theory as it discusses the domestic and international challenges that will prevent it from becoming a true superpower. Students of Chinese economics and politics will probably be fairly familiar with the list of " challenges " , " roadblocks " , and " obstacles " that China faces. For those unaware of current trends on the subject, these include the rebalancing of the economy away from dependence on exports to consumerism, the supposed contradictions of a free market capitalist system governed by an undemocratic government, which – far from liberalising as many in the West might expect – looks set to assert its authority and further clamp down on any dissent or challenge to its rule. The book does not provide any new insights but argues these points persuasively, so readers will be in little doubt that China faces some serious constraints on its power. The beauty of Fenby's book is that it is superbly concise; with over 30 years' experience of covering China, Fenby is able to distil complex ideas down to their core elements and burnish them with accompanying illustrative anecdotes. This book could save readers the time of wading through much longer books, blogs, and articles covering the same themes. Not a word is wasted. The final chapter effectively draws together the arguments of the previous four and concludes the author's case that no, China will not dominate the 21st century. Central to this hypothesis is the idea that the central government is too impervious to change and eventually their conservatism will catch them up, stifling reform efforts, putting a brake on the economy and any global ambitions.
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