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Zusatztext "This book sets benchmarks in regards to what is required knowledge about the history! structure and complexity of China's local administrative and institutional infrastructure... It will be an indispensible research and reference tool for anyone interested in China's local government! public administration! provision of public services and political reform." - Hans Hendrischke! The China Quarterly! Volume 203! September 2010"This volume is a much-needed publication which provides a comprehensive overview of the spatial organization of political power in China's administrative hierarchy... This volume contains profound analyses! which are packed with intricate details! yet highly readable through the use of illustrative examples. It should be essentialreading for political scientists! sociologists! geographers and anyone else interested in understanding China's evolving administrative structures." - Björn Alpermann! Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies! Würzburg University; Journal of Chinese Political Science/Association of Chinese Political Studies 2011 Informationen zum Autor Jae Ho Chung is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Institute for China Studies at Seoul National University, Korea. His recent publications include: Central Control and Local Discretion in China; Charting Chinas Future; and Cities in China: Recipes for Economic Development in the Reform Era (the latter also published by Routledge). Tao-chiu Lam is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He currently administers the university's MBA program in Xian and Shenzhen. He has published on local government and public sector management in China. Klappentext The remarkable changes in China over the past three decades are mostly considered at the national level, whereas local government - which has played and continues to play a key role in these developments - is often overlooked. The themes of China's local administrative hierarchy, and its historical evolution, have until now received scant attention; this book fills that gap, and presents a comprehensive survey of China's local administration, from the province down to the township. It examines the political and functional definitions and historical origins of the nine local administrative levels or categories in contemporary China: the province, the centrally-administered municipality, the ethnic minority autonomous region, the special administrative region, the deputy-provincial city, the prefecture, the county, township and urban district. It investigates how each of the different levels of China's local administration has developed historically, both before and after 1949; and it explores the functions, political and economic, that the different levels and units carry out, and how their relationships with superior and subordinate units have evolved over time. It also discusses how far the post-Mao reforms have affected local administration, and how the local administrative hierarchy is likely to develop going forward. Zusammenfassung This book presents a comprehensive survey of China’s local administration. It considers all kinds of local government units and their administrative functions, both historically and in the present day: ranging from the provinces, centrally-administered municipalities and autonomous regions to prefectures, counties, townships and urban districts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Evolving Hierarchy of China’s Local Administration: Traditions and Changes - Jae Ho Chung 2: Provinces: Paradoxical Politics, Problematic Partners - John Donaldson 3: Centrally-Administered Municipalities: Locomotives of National Development - Tse-Kang Leng 4: Ethnic Autonomous Regions: A Formula for Unitary Multiethnic State - Hongyi Lai 5: ‘One Country Two Systems’ and Special Administrative Regio...
