This book examines how the Chinese regime has handled the increasingly complex socio-political and socio-economic challenges generated as a result of the country's economic growth and transformation, challenges arising both from within the country and also from the external political environment.

Ka Ho Mok is Vice-President and concurrently Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China.

Introduction

1 Diplomatic Activism for Global Leadership: China's Approaches of Soft Power and Soft Security

2 China's Three-Pronged Approach Managing the New Geo-Politics in International Higher Education

3 Responses to Global Capitalism: The Marketization and Privatization of Higher Education and University Governance

4 Does International Education Matter?: Studying Overseas, Job Acquisition, and Graduate Employment

5 Questing for a Vibrant World-Class City Cluster: Opportunity and Challenge for Developing the Greater Bay Area

6 Social Policy Expansion and Welfare Regime(s) in Transition: Productivist Construction of Selective Welfare Capitalism in China

7 Similar Policy Agenda, Diverse Policy Practices: Government Procurement of Social Services and Social Governance Reforms

8 Enhancing Public Sector Management through Social Service Delivery Reforms: Implementation Challenges and Policy Implications

9 International Benchmarking with Chinese Characteristics: National Adaptations to Transnational Policy Learning

Conclusion

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