The Great Transformation of China

This book explores the reforms sweeping China's educational sector. Traditionally dominated by rote learning, China's educational system has increasingly been criticized by the rising middle class for failing to foster creativity, for arbitrary placement of students, and for fostering regional inequities. Reforms to make Chinese education „people-oriented“ are slowly but surely gaining steam, as the sector embraces comprehensive reforms. This book will be of interest to journalists, educators, and China watchers.

This book summarizes recent Chinese discussions about Internet finance—a new financial business type resulting from an innovative thinking under the new normal—in the light of the actual situation of China in transformation, especially the thirst of the grass-roots economy including medium-small and micro-sized enterprises as well as residents for financial services. The Internet finance is of great significance for optimizing and upgrading the industrial structure, improving the demand structure and reshaping the economic growth mode in China. This book will interest scholars, journalists, and businesspeople.

China's urbanization has stunned the world in the past two decades- but as the authors of this book explain, the growth is only set to continue. The divide between urban and rural citizens in China implicates every aspect of Chinese life, from education to pollution to healthcare. In this book, one of China's most celebrated academic urbanists and a major urban planner collaborate in laying out and analyzing the problems of China's urban-rural divide, experiences of urbanization, and what the future holds. This book is a must read, not only for the accurate summaries of China's developmental experience it includes, but also for the insights it provides into the mentalities of the government officials and private developers who are creating realities on the ground in Chinese cities.