...Li Ping Lan; Chor Foon Tang; Xiao Fang Pi Purpose We examine how human capital agglomeration and urbanisation jointly shape housing price dynamics in China. We aim to disentangle their distinct mechanisms and assess whether the effects of human capital concentration are consistent across different...

...Xiaobing Le; Sarma Binti Aralas Purpose The rural revitalization is a significant indicator of social development in China. Despite the crucial role that local governments play in coordinating urban and rural development, rural areas continue to face limited investment opportunities...

... Moral embeddedness Labor market China Economic sociology This article is a study of economic sociology that explores the moral embeddedness of markets. The contested role of morality in markets is related to a work by Polanyi, arguing that all economies are embedded in society and social...

...Yufu Chen; Yue Han; Liankai Guo Purpose Rapid development of China's rural industry since 1980s has a massive ripple effect on rural China. However, recent rural industrial development in China has received little scholarly attention. The study aims to investigate the development process...

...MA. Xinxin Purpose Social participation (SP) has been shown to have a favorable impact on health status, particularly among elders in developed countries. However, empirical study is scarce for China. This study explores the relation between social participation (SP) and health status among middle...

...Tong Tong; Tarlok Singh; Bin Li Purpose China’s outward foreign direct investment (ODI) has become a recent phenomenon in that China is now rated as the world’s third largest country for ODI. Previous studies have found that China’s ODI is driven by the attractions of natural resources...

...Feng Deng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze long-term institutional causes and consequences of preference falsification by studying the evolution of China’s patriarchal clan system. Design/methodology/approach The historic study shows that although the clan system was abolished...

... increased export volumes and higher economic rates and higher public revenue (p. 1206). Africa China International aid Sustainable development Political sovereignty Culture Human rights Poverty Economicism Capabilities Self‐development development Organization for Economic Cooperation...

...Jan‐Erik Lane Purpose China has become a most dominant player in the global economy with immense political repercussions, for instance in Africa. The extremely rapid Chinese economic transformation has been accomplished through strong globalisation with, for example, entrance into the WTO...

...Bing Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reargue the great controversies surrounding marketization, by the concept of intrinsic value and to give a panorama of China's marketization and social development during last 30 years. Design/methodology/approach The concept of intrinsic value...

... capitalism and state capitalism in China and Russia are juxtaposed and critically analyzed. Findings Neoliberalism is a conceptual model of enthusiastic true believers who never succeed in developing a workable economic system but rather a travesty of its own ideal. The USA instead of an efficient...

... China National cultures Social change There are many different approaches to identity and measure cultural values. An influential one is Hofstede's (1980, 1994) five‐dimension approach which indentifies five cultural dimensions, including uncertainty avoidance, power distance...

...Weert Canzler; Andreas Knie Purpose The purpose of this paper is to give an answer to the questions whether China can make the quantum leap in automotive technology from engines that burn fossil‐fuel to those that do not and whether China will take an “alternative Asian path of development...

.../value This paper shows the process of postsocialist transformation in a different light. Whereas, economists often only focus on political considerations or conflicts of interests, it insists on the cultural dimension of the process. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 China...

...Ananda Das Gupta; Appa Rao Korukonda Purpose China and India, increasingly referred to as the world's emerging giants among emerging economies, represent the second and fourth largest economies in the world, respectively. This paper seeks to provide a comparative assessment of these two countries...

...Ananda Das Gupta; Parikshit K. Basu Purpose This paper aims to attempt to compare the development strategies and achievements of India and China in the last 50 years and to analyse the challenges lying ahead if the trend continues. Design/methodology/approach The paper critically evaluates...

...Eelco Modderman; Cees Gorter; Jasper Dalhuisen; Peter Nijkamp Purpose The aim of this paper is to explain the relationship between economic performance and labour manoeuvrability of township‐village enterprises in the Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. Design/methodology/approach...

...John Marangos Purpose To examine China's reforms and successes could have been replicated to other transition economies. Design/methodology/approach The applicability of the Chinese process as an alternative for transition economies involves an analysis of the necessary reforms regarding price...

... policy after 1927. Sun Yat‐sen (1866‐1925) was born into a low‐income family in Southeast China. He studied in Hawaii and Hong Kong, learned Western medicine and the English language, and professed belief in Christianity. In 1894, in an effort to secure employment with the imperial government, he...

...Barrie Pettman; Colin Mackerras Purpose The paper aims to discover the role of the middle classes in the development of the ethnic minorities of China, given the importance of the middle classes in international economic development in the modern age. Design/methodology/approach The paper...