The Economic Rise of China: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

This book seeks to reinvigorate debates on the growing forces influencing China’s social and economic evolution. It draws attention to several neglected areas in the discussion of China’s rapid economic expansion, such as unbalanced growth, mass internal migration, international labour flows, and disparities in access to education, public health, and housing.

China’s rapid economic development has attracted the interest of many scholars following its emergence as the world’s second largest e...