This much-needed new textbook introduces readers to the development of China’s Welfare policies since its conception of an open-door policy in 1978. Setting our basic concepts and issues, including key items and the process of policy making, it overcomes a major barrier to understanding Chinese social policy. The book explores in detail the five key policy areas of employment, ...(展开全部)

"Why would authoritarian leaders expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? What are the distributive features and implications of social welfare expansion in an authoritarian country? How do authoritarian leaders design and enforce social welfare expansion in a decentralized multilevel governance setting? This book identifies the trade-off authoritarian...(展开全部)

Few doubt that China wants to be a major economic and military power on the world stage. To achieve this ambitious goal, however, the PRC leadership knows that China must first become an advanced information-based society. But does China have what it takes to get there? Are its leaders prepared to make the tough choices required to secure China’s cyber future? Or is there a fun...(展开全部)

Greg Austin is leader of the Policy Innovation Unit at the East-West Institute and the author of several highly regarded books on international security.

This Element provides an opinionated introduction to the debate in moral philosophy over identifying the basic elements of well-being and to the related debate over the nature of happiness. The question of the nature of happiness is simply the question of what happiness is (as opposed to what causes it or how to get it), and the central philosophical question about well-being i...(展开全部)

The success of this best-selling text lies in the author's belief that a good text talks with, rather than at, its readers. Shaffer does an extraordinary job of anticipating students' interests, questions, and concerns while treating them as active participants in the process of learning about social and personality development. The Sixth edition of SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVEL...(展开全部)

戴维·谢弗 (David R. Shaffer) 是美国佐治亚大学心理学教授，佐治亚大学本科生项目主席，毕生发展心理学与社会心理学项目前任主席，在该大学给本科生和研究生教授人类发展课程35年。他发表的多篇研究论文涉及到利他行为、态度与说服、道德发展、性别角色与社会行为、自我表露、社会心理学与法律。他还担任《人格与社会心理学杂志》、《人格与社会学学报》、《人格杂志》的副主编。1990年，他获得佐治亚大学最高教学荣誉奖约西亚·梅格斯(Josiah Meigs)优秀教学奖。

The success of this best-selling text lies in the author's belief that a good text talks with, rather than at, its readers. Shaffer does an extraordinary job of anticipating students' interests, questions, and concerns while treating them as active participants in the process of learning about social and personality development. The Sixth edition of SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVEL...(展开全部)

戴维·谢弗 (David R. Shaffer) 是美国佐治亚大学心理学教授，佐治亚大学本科生项目主席，毕生发展心理学与社会心理学项目前任主席，在该大学给本科生和研究生教授人类发展课程35年。他发表的多篇研究论文涉及到利他行为、态度与说服、道德发展、性别角色与社会行为、自我表露、社会心理学与法律。他还担任《人格与社会心理学杂志》、《人格与社会学学报》、《人格杂志》的副主编。1990年，他获得佐治亚大学最高教学荣誉奖约西亚·梅格斯(Josiah Meigs)优秀教学奖。

China's countryside is being transformed by rapid, far-reaching development. This wide-reaching and multidisciplinary book questions whether gender politics are changing in response to this development, and explores how gender politics inform and are reproduced or reconfigured in the languages, knowledge, processes and practices of development in rural China. The contributors -...(展开全部)