Overview
- Provides fascinating insights into the Chinese economy and Chinese politics, society, culture, literature, and history
- Explores China’s relations with the EU, the United States, and other countries
- Offers a multidisciplinary perspective that will appeal to scholars, analysts, and all with an interest in China
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Understanding China (UNCHI)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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China in World Politics
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China in the International Economy
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Chinese Politics and Culture
Keywords
- Chinese politics
- Chinese economics
- Chinese culture and society
- China’s international relations
- China-Italy relations
- China-India relations
- China-Russia relations
- China-Japan relations
- China-EU relations
- China-US relations
- China-Africa relations
- China’s outward economic strategy
- Chinese multinationals in Europe
- Italian banks in China
- Deng Xiaoping model
- Gender empowerment in China
- Chinese dream
About this book
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Axel Berkofsky is former Gianni Mazzocchi Fellow at the University of Pavia and since 2011 Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the same university. Currently, he is also Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Milan-based Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Executive Committee Board Member at the Stockholm-based European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN) and Senior Advisor at the Brussels-based EU-Asia Centre. Previously, Axel Berkofsky was Senior Policy Analyst and Associate Policy Analyst at the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC), Research Fellow at the Brussels-based European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS). Axel Berkofsky has authored two books and has published more than 200 academic, articles and essays in journals, newspapers and magazines. He has lectured and taught at numerous think tanks, research institutes and universities in Europe and Asia. His research interests are amongst others Japanese and Chinese foreign and security policies, Asian security and EU-Asia relations.
Lihong Zhang is senior fellow of the European Center of International Affairs (Brussels, Belgium) and a Full Professor of Civil Law, Roman Law, and Comparative Law at the East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, where he is also Director of the Research Center of Roman Law and European Law and Vice-Director of the Civil Law Research Center. Professor Zhang is Vice General Secretary of China’s National Society of Civil Law, Director of China’s National Society of Comparative Law, and Standing Director of China’s National Society of European Law. He has been a Fellow at the Asian Law Institute of the National University of Singapore and a visiting scholar or professor at leading universities in Europe and the United States. Professor Zhang is a member of the international editorial boards of Comparative Legal History and Quaderni Fiorentini (Italy). He is also a legal adviser for many international bodies and an attorney at law in China. He has published 18 books (10 co-edited) and more than 90 articles in Chinese and international academic journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding China Today
Book Subtitle: An Exploration of Politics, Economics, Society, and International Relations
Editors: Silvio Beretta, Axel Berkofsky, Lihong Zhang
Series Title: Understanding China
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29625-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29624-1Published: 03 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80612-9Published: 28 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29625-8Published: 19 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2196-3134
Series E-ISSN: 2196-3142
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 357
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Economics, Asian Politics, Asian Culture, Asian Literature, History of China, Economic Policy