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Public Opinion and Political Change in China

By: Wenfang Tang

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Public Opinion and Political Change in China

By: Wenfang Tang

This book describes through case studies how various factors, such as the single-party political system, traditional culture, market reform, and industrialization, shape public opinion and mass political behavior in urban China. Case studies focus on the process of conducting public opinion polls in China’s political environment, regime legitimacy and reform support, media control and censorship, interpersonal trust and democratization, mass political participation, labor relations and trade unions, and the role of intellectuals in political change. The book draws most of its empirical evidence from twelve Chinese public opinion surveys conducted between the late 1980s and the late 1990s. The same questions repeated in many of these surveys provide a rare opportunity to examine the changing pattern of the Chinese public mind during this period. The book ends with the provocative conclusion that China’s authoritarian political system proved to be less effective than traditional culture, marketization, and industrialization in shaping public opinion and mass political behavior. Liberal ideas and bottom-up political participation can emerge even in the absence of direct elections.

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Stanford University Press

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0804752206

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Populist Authoritarianism

Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

By: Wenfang Tang

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Populist Authoritarianism

Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

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Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to the continuity from the CCP's revolutionary experiences to its current governing style, even though China has changed in many ways on the surface in the post-Mao era. The book proposes a theoretical framework of Populist Authoritarianism with six key elements, including the Mass Line ideology, accumulation of social capital, public political activism and contentious politics, a government that is responsive to hype, weak political and civil institutions, and a high level of regime trust. These traits of Populist Authoritarianism are supported by empirical evidence drawn from multiple public opinion surveys conducted from 1987 to 2014. Although the CCP currently enjoys strong public support, such a system is inherently vulnerable due to its institutional deficiency. Public opinion can swing violently due to policy failure and the up and down of a leader or an elite faction. The drastic change of public opinion cannot be filtered through political institutions such as elections and the rule of law, creating system-wide political earthquakes.

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Oxford University Press

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0190205784

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Populist Authoritarianism

Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

By: Wenfang Tang

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Populist Authoritarianism

Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

By: Wenfang Tang

Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to the continuity from the CCP's revolutionary experiences to its current governing style, even though China has changed in many ways on the surface in the post-Mao era. The book proposes a theoretical framework of Populist Authoritarianism with six key elements, including the Mass Line ideology, accumulation of social capital, public political activism and contentious politics, a hyper-responsive government, weak political and civil institutions, and a high level of regime trust. These traits of Populist Authoritarianism are supported by empirical evidence drawn from multiple public opinion surveys conducted from 1987 to 2015. Although the CCP currently enjoys strong public support, such a system is inherently vulnerable due to its institutional deficiency. Public opinion can swing violently due to policy failure and the up and down of a leader or an elite faction. The drastic change of public opinion cannot be filtered through political institutions such as elections and the rule of law, creating system-wide political earthquakes.

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Public Opinion and Political Change in China

By: Wenfang Tang

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Chinese Urban Life Under Reform

The Changing Social Contract

By: Wenfang Tang,William L. Parish

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Chinese Urban Life Under Reform

The Changing Social Contract

By: Wenfang Tang,William L. Parish

This book examines how urban China is experiencing the shift from a planned to a market economy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521778654

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9780521778657

Teacher Training and Professional Development of Chinese English Language Teachers

Changing From Fish to Dragon

By: Faridah Pawan,Wenfang Fan,Pei Miao

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Teacher Training and Professional Development of Chinese English Language Teachers

Changing From Fish to Dragon

By: Faridah Pawan,Wenfang Fan,Pei Miao

This up-close look at Chinese ESL teachers documents undertakings at formal and informal levels to support and sustain their expertise in ways that balance collaborative and competitive efforts, situated and standards-based programs, ethnically responsive and government-based efforts, and traditional and 21st-century teaching visions. English is a mandated subject for approximately 400 million Chinese public school students. Making transparent the training and professional development received respectively by pre-service and in-service teachers, this book provides a rare window into how Chinese English Language teachers (ELTs) reconcile the two needs with the responsibility to teach large numbers of students while also navigating societal, cultural, and institutional cross currents. It also explores the range of ways China invests in the training and professional development of its English language teachers.

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Routledge

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1317300033

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Perturbation Methods, Instability, Catastrophe and Chaos

By: Wenfang Chen,C. F. Chan Man Fong,Daniel De Kee

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Perturbation Methods, Instability, Catastrophe and Chaos

By: Wenfang Chen,C. F. Chan Man Fong,Daniel De Kee

This important book introduces perturbation and qualitative methods for differential equations in terms understandable to students with only a basic knowledge of calculus and ordinary linear differential equations. Theorems are stated clearly with their limitations and restrictions and are applied to solve examples from various disciplines. The writing style is informal and new ideas are introduced gradually via concepts already familiar to the reader.

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World Scientific

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9810237278

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9789810237271

Potential Yields of Major Crops for Chinese and Global Food Security Under Climate Change

By: Chengzhi Cai,Wenfang Cao

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Potential Yields of Major Crops for Chinese and Global Food Security Under Climate Change

By: Chengzhi Cai,Wenfang Cao

This book analyzes potential yields of six major food crops - rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed worldwide using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to study both China’s and global food security under climate change. Firstly, it reviews previous studies on potential yields of rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed worldwide to provide a detailed information of studying on China’s and global food security based on the product’s supply and demand of these crops. Secondly, average and top (national) yields of rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed since 1961 on global scale are employed to analyze their temporal and spatial variation trends and potential limits. Thirdly, the effects of global warming in climate change on both average and top yields of rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed since 1961 at global level are analyzed using regression model, and their differences between average and top yields among these crops are identified and compared. Fourthly, the yields and per capita quantity of rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed in major producer-countries and the world are analyzed to assess the situation and trend of international trade for the products of these crops, respectively. Fifthly, potential yields of rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed worldwide by 2030 are projected using both trend-regressed models and ARIMA models to estimate the per capita quantity of these crops based on the projection of world population and assess the status of Chinese and global food security in that future. Finally, it provides policy implications and advice on food security for China and the world directing food production by 2030 under climate change.

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Springer Nature

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9811952132

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9789811952135

China's Professional Employer Association Law

Legal Protection for Labor Relations Coordination

By: Wu Wenfang

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China's Professional Employer Association Law

Legal Protection for Labor Relations Coordination

By: Wu Wenfang

This book studies the coordination mechanism of labor relations from the perspective of China’s law on employer association. The first part of the book examines the definition, functions, and institutional basis of employer associations in different types of labor relations, focusing on the complementarity between the law and the coordination mechanism of labor relations in the context of different social environments, institutional frameworks, and their different responses to deregulated labor policies. It then reviews the legislation, responsibilities, and institutional guarantees of employer associations in modern China. The second part outlines the current limitations of legal resources in terms of subject matter, participation mechanisms, and participation channels that constrain the coordination of industrial relations by China’s employer associations. The author emphasizes that the systematic legal safeguards of employer associations should be function-oriented and gradually established in a targeted and differentiated manner. The title will appeal to labor and employment law scholars and legislators, and especially to those interested in the law of employer association.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040047971

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Chinese Urban Life Under Reform

The Changing Social Contract

By: Wenfang Tang,William L. Parish

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Chinese Urban Life Under Reform

The Changing Social Contract

By: Wenfang Tang,William L. Parish

This book examines how urban China is experiencing the shift from a planned to a market economy.

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Cambridge University Press

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Book's by Wenfang Tang

Public Opinion and Political Change in China

Public Opinion and Political Change in China

Populist Authoritarianism

Populist Authoritarianism

Populist Authoritarianism

Populist Authoritarianism

Public Opinion and Political Change in China

Public Opinion and Political Change in China

Chinese Urban Life Under Reform

Chinese Urban Life Under Reform

Teacher Training and Professional Development of Chinese English Language Teachers

Teacher Training and Professional Development of Chinese English Language Teachers

Perturbation Methods, Instability, Catastrophe and Chaos

Perturbation Methods, Instability, Catastrophe and Chaos

Potential Yields of Major Crops for Chinese and Global Food Security Under Climate Change

Potential Yields of Major Crops for Chinese and Global Food Security Under Climate Change

China's Professional Employer Association Law

China's Professional Employer Association Law

Chinese Urban Life Under Reform

Chinese Urban Life Under Reform

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