Understanding A Changing China
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Understanding a Changing China
As China becomes the world’s largest economy, so it becomes important to understand the key issues shaping the country’s business environment and the behaviour of Chinese businesspeople. This is difficult because those issues are contested. Is China growing at 3% or 8%? Is the Chinese consumer going to save the world? Are state-owned enterprises national champions or zombies? Have we reached the end of "Cheap China"? Can China innovate? Is business still dominated by personal connections? Are markets or the state in control? Does Chinese culture impede or support organizational effectiveness? Are Chinese dragons at your door? Will the finance and property sectors implode? Is the Chinese model sustainable, or will it end in tears? On all these issues there is ill-informed "noise", and an abundance of partisan interpretations. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to provide an even-handed analysis of the key issues that will shape the threats and opportunities arising from China’s development in the next decade. It cannot resolve the competing claims made. However, it does provide the reader with the ideas and the sources of evidence needed to understand and to make well thought-out judgments as China continues to evolve.
Chineseness And Modernity In A Changing China: Essays In Honour Of Professor Wang Gungwu
This book is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Wang Gungwu. Professor Wang is not only a great historian on Chinese history in general and the Chinese overseas in particular, but has much wider influence through remarkable domain crossing, namely spatial crossing characterised by geographical straddling between inside and outside of China, temporal crossing from the ancient past to the contemporary, inter-disciplinary crossing from history to the social sciences, and intellectual crossing from the academia to public activism. He has been a long-lasting source of inspiration for understanding some of the most pressing and complex issues in our times, including the nature of China's rise and its implications for the regional and world order. In a nutshell, this book presents Wang as a highly active educator-scholar who has achieved the highest academic standard as well as far-reaching influence over issues that concern all walks of life.By focusing on the theme of Chineseness and China's modernity, this book adds depth to the analysis of China's rise and its implications for the region and the world. It contains a chapter providing the most comprehensive and updated review of Wang's scholarship thus far. Another chapter demonstrates how Wang, based on his deep understanding of Chinese civilisation and history, articulates a distinct view of the world order that differs from either the thesis of 'Thucydides's trap' or the advocacy of mutual accommodation. Interestingly, this book also includes a chapter that highlights Wang's 'Southeast Asian-ness', suggesting that Wang's scholarship cautions against not only western-centric views towards China, but also Sino-centric views towards Southeast Asia. In short, this edited volume is both a reference book for understanding Wang's scholarship and an extension of his scholarship to the analysis of China's growing international influence and its implications for the world order.
CHANGE CHINA: False Marxist-Leninist Communism and Socialism
Changing China has become an important factor in influencing the value of human society as a whole. However, in order to truly achieve substantive change in Chinese society, it is necessary to achieve a new understanding of the civilizational order of human society. Although there are already various ideas and theories guiding and influencing the real world, all kinds of disputes and confusion are emerging. The endless disputes over various interests and concerns over various values are all urging a rebirth of the cognitive values of human civilization! Although I have the desire to contribute to the advancement of human civilization, I am not able to do so alone. Although I have spent most of my life exploring, I have not been able to meet the needs of reality. In recent years, I have been fortunate enough to live in the United States, where I enjoy a great deal of freedom, and I have been able to express some of my initial understanding publicly. Although my conceptualization of these values is not formally acknowledged by relevant authorities or experts, I feel it is important to articulate and record these ideas in the hope that they will help influence people's perception of the real world and improve it, especially in Chinese society!