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China–Africa Mobility and Sojourning
Heidi Østbø Haugen is the author of “China–Africa Exports: Governance Through Mobility and Sojourning” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1517897). Heidi is with the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, in Norway. This is the first article in a special … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, borders, China, Heidi Østbø Haugen, informal trade, logistics, migration
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China and Thailand
JCA editor Kevin Hewison has a new review at the publisher’s website. In it, he looks at Thailand. Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China, authored by Benjamin Zawacki and published by Zed Books. Describing the book’s approach … Continue reading
Assessing FDI and the Chinese Economy
In another book review on China, Kosmas Tsokhas writes about Foreign Direct Investment and the Chinese Economy: A Critical Assessment by Chunlai Chen, of The Australian National University and published by Edward Elgar. Foreign direct investment (FDI) of US$1.6 trillion … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Chunlai Chen, foreign investment, inequality, Kosmas Tsokhas, liberalisation
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China’s Crony Capitalism
Kosmas Tsokhas has reviewed a series of books for JCA, all of which have been thought-provoking and have been widely read. His latest review is of China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay. The book is authored by Minxin … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, China, corruption, cronyism, Kosmas Tsokhas, Minxin Pei, Xi Jinping
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The Rise of E-commerce in China
The latest article published at the JCA publisher’s website takes a look at the rise of e-commerce with a focus on China. The article is “E-Commerce and Industrial Upgrading in the Chinese Apparel Value Chain” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1481220). It is authored … Continue reading
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Tagged Apparel, China, e-commerce, Fuyi Li, Gary Gereffi, global value chains, SMEs, Stacey Frederick, upgrading
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Issue 2 for 2018 published
Issue number 2 for Volume 48 (2018) of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This number is a special issue, featuring two additional research articles and book reviews. The special issue is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Ba, Ben Hillman, China, Claudia J. Kim, Colin Mackerras, Helen E. S. Nesadurai, Indonesia, Islamic finance, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel, Marco Bünte, migrant workers, military base closure, Myanmar, Nippon Foundation, Robert H. Taylor, Shaun Breslin, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Tibet, United States, women, Xinjiang
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Art and Politics in China
In another in his series of book reviews of works on China, Kosmas Tsokhas reviews The Phoenix Years: Art, Resistance and the Making of Modern China for JCA. Published by Allen & Unwin, the book is authored by Madeleine O’Dea. … Continue reading
