{"title":"Inequality, Inflation, and their Impact on China’s Investment Environment in the 1990s and beyond","authors":"Zhao Xiaobin Simon, Tong S. P. Christopher","doi":"10.4324/9780429428425-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429428425-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46077,"journal":{"name":"China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2018-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85925923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreign Direct Investment in China: An Examination of the Literature","authors":"Stefan Kaiser, David A. Kirby, Ying Fan","doi":"10.4324/9780429428425-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429428425-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46077,"journal":{"name":"China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China","volume":"204 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2018-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86950293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culture’s Consequences for Management in Hong Kong","authors":"S. Lowe","doi":"10.4324/9780429428425-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429428425-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46077,"journal":{"name":"China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2018-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86087680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hermes Revisited: A Replication of Hofstede’s Study in Hong Kong and the UK","authors":"S. Lowe","doi":"10.4324/9780429428425-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429428425-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46077,"journal":{"name":"China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2018-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89197496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Grand Mediation (GM) is a new conflict management mechanism initiated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to cope with rapidly growing social conflict and maintain social stability. This article examines how GM operates in an urban grassroots environment and discusses its advantages for managing social conflicts as reflected in a cases study: the Li Qin mediation office. It concludes that GM may improve the capacity of the local government to engage in conflict resolutions, which confers greater resilience on the authoritarian regime. However, this mechanism is sensitive to changing socio–economic conditions, and its sustainability requires further examination.
{"title":"The Development of Grand Mediation and Its Implications for China’s Regime Resilience: The Li Qin Mediation Office","authors":"Meng U. Ieong","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2283226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2283226","url":null,"abstract":"Grand Mediation (GM) is a new conflict management mechanism initiated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to cope with rapidly growing social conflict and maintain social stability. This article examines how GM operates in an urban grassroots environment and discusses its advantages for managing social conflicts as reflected in a cases study: the Li Qin mediation office. It concludes that GM may improve the capacity of the local government to engage in conflict resolutions, which confers greater resilience on the authoritarian regime. However, this mechanism is sensitive to changing socio–economic conditions, and its sustainability requires further examination.","PeriodicalId":46077,"journal":{"name":"China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China","volume":"35 1","pages":"95-119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2014-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88994712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.4324/9780203091647-11
W. Tam
This article examines the institutional origins of the prevalent failures of Chinese public hospitals to treat indigent patients from the perspective of changes in the demand and supply of affordable health care. On the demand side, the breakdown of the Maoist health insurance system and insufficient incentive and neglect of the post-Mao regime to rebuild an effective health safety net, together with the collapse of the triage in the reform period, have contributed to an enormous growth of the demand for affordable health care. On the supply side, a weakening of government financial commitment to the health sector since the mid-1980s has undermined the motivation and capacity of public hospitals to provide affordable health services, as many hospitals run on commercial lines and physicians act like entrepreneurs. The article further argues that these changes in the demand and supply of affordable health care illustrate the shrinkage of the post-Mao government's responsibility for welfare provision to the general public.
{"title":"Failing to treat : why public hospitals in China do not work","authors":"W. Tam","doi":"10.4324/9780203091647-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203091647-11","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the institutional origins of the prevalent failures of Chinese public hospitals to treat indigent patients from the perspective of changes in the demand and supply of affordable health care. On the demand side, the breakdown of the Maoist health insurance system and insufficient incentive and neglect of the post-Mao regime to rebuild an effective health safety net, together with the collapse of the triage in the reform period, have contributed to an enormous growth of the demand for affordable health care. On the supply side, a weakening of government financial commitment to the health sector since the mid-1980s has undermined the motivation and capacity of public hospitals to provide affordable health services, as many hospitals run on commercial lines and physicians act like entrepreneurs. The article further argues that these changes in the demand and supply of affordable health care illustrate the shrinkage of the post-Mao government's responsibility for welfare provision to the general public.","PeriodicalId":46077,"journal":{"name":"China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China","volume":"409 1","pages":"103-130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74362218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Responsible government is often seen as contingent on democracy. Yet despite China's continued lack of notable progress in democratization, recent years have witnessed some limited moves towards responsible governance. In the absence of free elections and other institutional arrangements, how can an authoritarian regime become responsible? This paper turns to the role of ideas and culture in general and contractual thinking in particular for an explanation. Contractual thinking, defined as a particular kind of intersubjective understanding between the government and citizens with regard to their mutual interests, is present in both China's contemporary official discourse on "responsible government" and traditional Chinese culture. Taking a constructivist approach, the paper focuses on two interrelated aspects of the role of contractual thinking in the construction of responsible government. First, it examines how contractual thinking, by helping redefine the identity and interest of the government in line with citizens' loyalty, could allow more responsible government behaviour. It then illustrates that in the case of government irresponsibility, contractual thinking sets the discursive context for rightful resistance from citizens as well as for a more sympathetic reading of such resistance by the government, both of which, the paper argues, could facilitate the development of responsible governance.
{"title":"Contractual thinking and responsible government in China: A constructivist framework for analysis*","authors":"Chengxin Pan","doi":"10.4324/9780203091647-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203091647-9","url":null,"abstract":"Responsible government is often seen as contingent on democracy. Yet despite China's continued lack of notable progress in democratization, recent years have witnessed some limited moves towards responsible governance. In the absence of free elections and other institutional arrangements, how can an authoritarian regime become responsible? This paper turns to the role of ideas and culture in general and contractual thinking in particular for an explanation. Contractual thinking, defined as a particular kind of intersubjective understanding between the government and citizens with regard to their mutual interests, is present in both China's contemporary official discourse on \"responsible government\" and traditional Chinese culture. Taking a constructivist approach, the paper focuses on two interrelated aspects of the role of contractual thinking in the construction of responsible government. First, it examines how contractual thinking, by helping redefine the identity and interest of the government in line with citizens' loyalty, could allow more responsible government behaviour. It then illustrates that in the case of government irresponsibility, contractual thinking sets the discursive context for rightful resistance from citizens as well as for a more sympathetic reading of such resistance by the government, both of which, the paper argues, could facilitate the development of responsible governance.","PeriodicalId":46077,"journal":{"name":"China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China","volume":"31 1","pages":"33-49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77541010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1996-03-01DOI: 10.1080/13602389600000002
Tsang Shu-ki
Since 1979, China has made tremendous progress in its economic reforms, and in these developments Hong Kong and Taiwan have beeen most deeply involved, so much so that the three economies have been collectively called ‘Greater China’. This article investigates the integration process from the perspective of the political economy, pointing out the promises as well as the problems. The author is cautiously optimistic about the future, provided that far-sightedness can prevent any dominant urge for short-term profits and political compulsion. The logic of economic interests seems power enough to ensure that even the more formidable political barriers can eventually be overcome. As a result, Greater China looks likely to be increasingly open to the rest of the world.
{"title":"The Political Economy of Greater China","authors":"Tsang Shu-ki","doi":"10.1080/13602389600000002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13602389600000002","url":null,"abstract":"Since 1979, China has made tremendous progress in its economic reforms, and in these developments Hong Kong and Taiwan have beeen most deeply involved, so much so that the three economies have been collectively called ‘Greater China’. This article investigates the integration process from the perspective of the political economy, pointing out the promises as well as the problems. The author is cautiously optimistic about the future, provided that far-sightedness can prevent any dominant urge for short-term profits and political compulsion. The logic of economic interests seems power enough to ensure that even the more formidable political barriers can eventually be overcome. As a result, Greater China looks likely to be increasingly open to the rest of the world.","PeriodicalId":46077,"journal":{"name":"China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89442292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1996-03-01DOI: 10.1080/13602389600000001
C. Rowley, Mark Lewis
All those interested in international business and geopolitics are now conscious of globalization, regionalism and convergence. Despite the diplomatic tensions in the Asia Pacific region, links of trade and investment are seemingly drawing nations closer. Trade with mainland China has been central to economic growth in Hong Kong and Taiwan which, in turn, has led to the investment in China and its consequent economic development. However, economic factors, as well as political uncertainty, ultimately place limits on the development of closer regional integration. It is thus fair to ask whether business practices and objectives among the established and newly emerging enterprises of Greater China are as homogeneous or as predestined towards convergence as certain commentators contend. On the one hand, some recent studies argue for the validity of cross-national comparisons and similarities between ethnic Chinese, and emphasize that such similarities can only be reinforced by foreign direct investment and j...
{"title":"Greater China at the Crossroads? Convergence, Culture and Competitiveness","authors":"C. Rowley, Mark Lewis","doi":"10.1080/13602389600000001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13602389600000001","url":null,"abstract":"All those interested in international business and geopolitics are now conscious of globalization, regionalism and convergence. Despite the diplomatic tensions in the Asia Pacific region, links of trade and investment are seemingly drawing nations closer. Trade with mainland China has been central to economic growth in Hong Kong and Taiwan which, in turn, has led to the investment in China and its consequent economic development. However, economic factors, as well as political uncertainty, ultimately place limits on the development of closer regional integration. It is thus fair to ask whether business practices and objectives among the established and newly emerging enterprises of Greater China are as homogeneous or as predestined towards convergence as certain commentators contend. On the one hand, some recent studies argue for the validity of cross-national comparisons and similarities between ethnic Chinese, and emphasize that such similarities can only be reinforced by foreign direct investment and j...","PeriodicalId":46077,"journal":{"name":"China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91136743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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