Description
Unlike most books which consider China’s transformation and globalization over the last four decades by focusing on China’s economic growth, this book examines how the Chinese regime has handled the increasingly complex sociopolitical and socio-economic challenges generated as a result of the country’s economic growth and transformation, challenges arising both from within the country and also from the external political environment. Based on extensive original research, the book outlines how China’s economic development has generated social and governance pressures, discusses the government’s social, educational, and governance reforms, and highlights how China’s development experiences, which differ from the Western economies with democratic political regimes, have drawn increasing attention from other countries in the developing world as an example to follow.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Diplomatic Activism for Global Leadership: China’s Approaches to Promoting Soft Power and Soft Security
2. China’s Three-Pronged Approach Managing the New Geo-Politics in International Higher Education
3. Responses to Global Capitalism: The Marketization and Privatization of Higher Education and University Governance
4. Does International Education Matter?: Studying Overseas, Job Acquisition and Graduate Employment
5. Questing for a Vibrant World-class City Cluster: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing the Greater Bay Area
6. Social Policy Expansion and Welfare Regime(s) in Transition: Productivist Construction of Selective Welfare Capitalism in China
7. Similar Policy Agenda, Diverse Policy Practices: Government Procurement of Social Services and Social Governance Reforms
8. Enhancing Public Sector Management through Social Service Delivery Reforms: Implementation Challenges and Policy Implications
9. International Benchmarking with Chinese Characteristics: National Adaptations to Transnational Policy Learning
Conclusion
