Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780754644279
,
9780754684817
Content:
Economic transition in China has witnessed (re)centralization of resources from the margin to the core in economic, social and political senses. This book employs a marginalization lens to reveal, delineate and better understand the processes, patterns, trends, multiple dimensions and dynamics of the phenomenon, and the consequences and implications for development and well-being in the country
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Marginalisation and Globalisation in Transitional China -- PART 1: CHINA IN TRANSITION: INEQUALITY, POVERTY AND MARGINALISATION -- 2 Marginalisation in the Chinese Countryside: The Question of Rural Poverty -- 3 Marginalisation of Laid-off State-owned Enterprise Workers in Wuhan -- 4 Marginalisation in the Chinese Energy Sector: The Case of Township and Village Coal Mines -- 5 Living and Working at the Margin: Rural Migrant Workers in China's Transitional Cities -- 6 Marginalisation and Health Provision in Transitional China -- 7 Institutional Responses to the Changing Patterns of Poverty and Marginalisation in China since 1949 -- PART 2: MARGINALISATION IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION IN CHINA -- 8 Globalisation and Marginalisation of Chinese Overseas Contract Workers -- 9 The World Trade Organization and Chinese Farmers: Implications for Agricultural Crisis and Marginalisation -- 10 China, the World Trade Organization and the End of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing: Impacts on Workers -- 11 Conceptualising the Links: Migration, Health and Sustainable Livelihoods in China -- 12 Spatial and Social Marginalisation of Health in China: The Impact of Globalisation -- 13 Civil Society and Marginalisation: Grassroots NGOs in Qinghai Province -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Additional Edition:
Print version Wu, Bin Marginalisation in China Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2007 ISBN 9780754644279
Language:
English
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