This book constitutes the first comprehensive retrospective on one hundred years of post-dynastic China and compares enduring challenges of governance in the period around the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 to those of contemporary China. The authors examine three key areas of domestic change and policy adaptation: social welfare provision, local political institutional reform, and social and environmental consequences of major infrastructure projects. Demonstrating remarkable parallels between the immediate post-Qing era and the recent phase of Chinese reform since the late-1990s, the book highlights common challenges to the political leadership by tracing dynamics of state activism in crafting new social space and terms of engagement for problem-solving and exploring social forces that continue to undermine the centralizing impetus of the state.

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Politics & International Relations

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Chinese History

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Politics & International Relations

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Governance, Domestic Change, and Social Policy in China in Historical Perspective
Chapter 2: Historical Continuities in Social Assistance in China, 1911–2011
Chapter 3: ‘As Plants Grow Towards Sunlight…: Amity Foundation’s Social Function in Historical Perspective
Chapter 4: Governing Disasters: A Comparative Analysis of the 1931, 1954 and 1998 Middle-Yangzi Floods in Hubei
Chapter 5: Reasons to Dam: China’s Hydropower Politics and Its Socio-Environmental Consequences
Chapter 6: Grassroots Governance Reform in Urban China
Chapter 7: China’s Political Stability: Comparisons and Reflections
Bibliography
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