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Book SynopsisChina at 60 explores the interactions between China and the world, over the course of 60 years of Communist Party rule since 1949 and the impact of these interactions on China's domestic development. To understand China's development experience and its transformation, it is necessary to examine the trajectory of development from pre-reform to post-reform periods. While the book may concur with previous findings on the changing development of China under economic reform, more importantly, it demonstrates the areas of continuity of the PRC's existence over the entire six decades. To that end, a dual theme — change-and-continuity and global-local interactions on China's development — is adopted to assess the historical development of China's policies in various issue areas over the past 60 years. The focus is chiefly on the domestic impacts of China's increasing engagement with the world, the global implications of China's reform efforts and growing power, and the long-lasting uniqueness of this rising non-European nation.The book brings together a team of international experts to share their perspectives on global-local interactions within a range of different topics, including foreign policy, domestic politics, macroeconomic policy, the central-local relations, the People's Liberation Army, public health, energy security, finance and banking, foreign trade, and intellectual property rights, as well as changes in the state's policies towards interest groups such as ethnic minorities.
Table of ContentsChinese Foreign Policy: Sixty Years On; Plumbing the Relevance of Independence and Self-RelianceA" in Chinese Foreign Policy, 1949-2009; China at Sixty: Domestic Politics; Central-Local Relations: Explaining Trends through Processes; China's Macroeconomy: Global-Local Interactions; From Mono-Banking to Globalization: The Ordeal of China's Banking Reform; The Development of Intellectual Property Law in the People's Republic of China; In Search of a Capable Fighting Force: Chinese Military Modernization and Transformation; The Power Politics of China's Search for Energy Security: From Pre-Daqing to Post-Daqing; Oscillating between Mao and Deng? The Domestic-International Nexus of China's Public Health Reform; China's Ethnic Minorities: Global-Local Interactions over 60 Years; The Party-State and the Special Position of Women.
