Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521837308 ISBN 13: 9780521837309

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Despite repeated predictions of collapse and disintegration, China has managed to sustain national unity and gain international stature since the 1989 Tiananmen crisis. Examining the sources and dynamics of the resilience, this volume's contributors reveal how China's leaders have adapted and reinforced key economic and political institutions. They also disclose that implementation of complex policies to regulate economic and social life (employment and migration, population planning, industrial adjustment, and regional disparities) has become more effective over time within a context of growing social and economic diversity.

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Book Description

Despite repeated predictions of collapse and disintegration, China has managed to sustain national unity and gain international stature since the Tiananmen crisis of 1989. This volume examines the sources and dynamics of China's resilience. The volume's authors look at how China's leaders have adapted and reinforced key institutions for political integration and economic governance. They also find that implementation of difficult and complex policies to regulate economic and social life--employment and migration, population planning, industrial adjustment, and regional disparities--has become more effective over time within a context of growing social and economic diversity.

About the Author

Barry Naughton is an economist who specializes in China's transitional economy. He has written on economic policy-making in China, and issues relating to industry, foreign trade, macroeconomics and regional development in China. Naughton teaches at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies of the University of California at San Diego. In 1998, he was named the first So Kuanlok Professor of Chinese and International Affairs. His study of Chinese economic reform, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. His research on economic interactions among China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, focusing on the elections industry, led to the edited volume The China Circle: Economics and Technology in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong (1997). Dali L. Yang is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. He has also served as a distinguished visiting professor at Nankai and Tsinghua Universities in China. He is the author of Calamity and Reform in China (1996), Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (1997), and Remaking the Chinese Leviathan (forthcoming).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521837308
• ISBN 13: 9780521837309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Naughton Barry J., Yang Dali L.