Format:
1 Online-Ressource (275 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789811611674
Note:
Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1 "Made in China" No Longer Means Cheap -- From Agrarian Society to Industrialized Nation -- Migration and Urbanization -- Labor Shortages and the One-Child Policy -- New Working Conditions -- Modernize or Leave -- 2 Pragmatic China -- The Wang Family -- Changing Course -- Diversity and Complexity -- Flexibility in Business -- 3 Multifaceted China -- Inequality -- Ethnic Diversity -- Religious Diversity -- Stability Through Integration -- 4 The Unwritten Contract -- The Consensus -- Food Scandals -- Opportunities -- Pollution -- Social Protest -- Green Revolution -- Nationalism as a Unifying Factor -- Regained Self-Confidence -- 5 Why Chinese Students Go Abroad -- Gaokao -- The Problems of the Education System -- Studying Abroad as an Alternative -- Labor Market Competition and Problems -- 6 One Billion Customers -- Quality and Status -- Products and Services -- Tourism -- First Time Abroad -- Demanding Consumers -- Consumption as an Economic Engine -- 7 The Chinese Online Tsunami -- Censorship -- The Internet Makes Life Easier -- WeChat -- Window to the World -- E-Commerce -- 8 Made in China 2.0 and Beyond -- Investment in R& -- D -- Need for Innovation -- Patents and Intellectual Property (IP) -- Chinese Silicon Valley -- Success Stories -- Problems -- 9 Better Unhappy Rich Than Poor -- Growing Individualism -- Generational Conflicts -- Stress Factors -- Decay of Values and Norms -- Morality Crisis -- Guanxi -- Big Brother and Big Government -- 10 Qian'an: From Zero to Hero (and Back) -- Small and Local -- The City Council as Business Partner -- Saving Qian'an's Self-Image -- Local Government Debt -- Corruption -- Tensions and Problems -- New Empires -- The New Qian'an -- 11 China Goes Global -- A Natural Economic Development -- Chinese Technology -- China as Global Player
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China's Growing International Influence -- Xi Jinping's Anti-corruption Campaign -- 12 The Great Decoupling and a New Cold War -- The Great Decoupling -- An Internationally More Assertive China -- A New Cold War -- Afterword -- Company names and institutions -- Geographical Index -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Agten, Sven Adventures in the Chinese Economy: 16 Years from the Inside Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,c2021 ISBN 9789811611667
Language:
English
Keywords:
China
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Wirtschaft
