Xiaobo Lü , University of California, Berkeley Changdong Zhang , Peking University, Beijing

赵树凯，1959年11月生，山东莱西人。文学学士（山东大学），法学硕士（中央党校），法学博士（中国人民大学）。研究员，国务院颁发政府特殊津贴专家。中共中央政治局第三十六次集体学习主讲人（2006年11月）。现任国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任。 1982年8月起在中共中央书记处农村政策研究室（国务院农村发展研究中心）工作，任秘书、助理研究员。1990年8月起在国务院发展研究中心工作，任助理研究员、副研究员、研究员，国务院发展研究中心农村部组织研究室主任、中共中央文献编辑委员会《万里文选》编辑组编辑、河北省涿鹿县委副书记、中国发展研究基金会副秘书长、国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任，[1] 兼任中国农村劳动力资源开发研究会秘书长。曾任世界银行和英国国际发展部中国农村发展项目顾问，联合国开发计划署中国农村发展项目顾问，亚洲基金会基层治理项目顾问。1995年获...(展开全部)

This book's analysis of economic growth in China from the late nineteenth century to the Pacific War challenges the common notion that the prewar decades were a time of stagnation or decline. Focusing on the modern sector--cotton textile factories, sail and steamship transport, and Western-style commercial banking--Rawski demonstrates that, in spite of extreme economic and poli...(展开全部)

China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people. This timely book provides an anthropological analysis of mental health in China through an exploration of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosocial practices, and the role of the State. The book offers a critical s...(展开全部)

"Show[s] the system to be made up of real human beings engaged in high-stakes political activity, impossible to capture on an organizat ion chart. . . . A major work that no serious student of politics should miss."--Michael Gasster, Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Science "The best book yet in the doing business in China' category."--Nancy Langston, Far Easter...(展开全部)

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fi...(展开全部)

Dr. Jie Yang, Associate Professor of anthropology, received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Toronto in 2006. Dr. Yang’s research is at the intersection of two primary areas: linguistic anthropology and China studies. In the first area, she is interested in the analysis of how power and ideologies are embedded in and work through language and how ideologies interp...(展开全部)

Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. China's development does not result from historical imperatives or deliberate ec...(展开全部)

According to conventional wisdom, rising corruption reduces economic growth. And yet, between 1978 and 2010, even as officials were looting state coffers, extorting bribes, raking in kickbacks, and scraping off rents at unprecedented rates, the Chinese economy grew at an average annual rate of 9 percent. In Double Paradox, Andrew Wedeman seeks to explain why the Chinese economy...(展开全部)