Governance, Domestic Change, and Social Policy in China

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard is Distinguished Professor, School of Advanced International and Area Studies, East China Normal University, China, and Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, United States.  His research emphasizes foreign investment in and from China, Chinese foreign economic policy, and multinational corporations. Kun-Chin Lin is University Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies and Director of the Centre for Rising Powers, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His research covers the political economy of China, transport infrastructure and energy policies, industrial policy and regulation, fiscal federalism, maritime governance, and regionalism in Asia.

Ch 1: Governance, Domestic Change, and Social Policy in China in Historical Perspective (Lin and Blanchard) .- Ch 2: Historical Continuities in Social Assistance in China, 1911 – 2011 (Hammond) .- Ch 3: ‘As plants grow towards sunlight…: Amity Foundation’s Social Function in Historical  Perspective (Wielander) .- Ch 4: Governing Disasters: A Comparative Analysis of the 1931, 1954 and 1998 Middle-Yangzi Floods in Hubei (Courtney) .- Ch 5: Reasons to Dam: China’s Hydropower Politics and Its Socio- Environmental Consequences (Habich) .- Ch 6: Grassroots Governance Reform in Urban China (Trott) .- Ch 7: China’s Political Stability: Comparisons and Reflections (Zheng).

"The editors have a good variety of topics, ranging from a particular case (flooding); a particular organization (Amity Foundation); a particular project (dams) and international comparison (in political stability). Each chapter is well written and goes deep eough to analyze the selected area without presenting too much history. … Overall, this volume offers a very good collection for readers." (Hok Wong Cheung, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 24, 2019)