Professor WANG Gungwu is Chairman of the East Asian Institute, University Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University. He is also Chairman of the governing board of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Professor Wang received his BA (Honours) and MA degrees from the University of Malaya in Singapore, and his PhD in Mediaeval History from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London (1957). His teaching career took him from the University of Malaya (Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, 1957–1968, Professor of History 1963–1968) to the Australian National University (1968–1986), where he was Professor and Head of the Department of Far Eastern History and Director of the Research of Pacific Studies. From 1986 to 1995, he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. He was Director of the East Asian Institute of NUS from 1997 to 2007.
Professor Wang holds many appointments and awards. He has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1991. He was conferred the International Academic Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prizes. He was awarded the Public Service Medal by the Singapore government in 2004 and a second medal in 2008. In Singapore, he is a member of the new Board of the Chinese Heritage Centre; and of the Board of Governors of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (later renamed as S Rajaratnam School of International Studies), both at Nanyang Technological University.
Professor Wang is a prolific author and is renowned for his scholarship on the history of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, and the history and civilisation of China and Southeast Asia. In over five decades, he has written more than 500 scholarly works of books, monographs and other edited volumes.
Professor ZHENG Yongnian is Director of the East Asian Institute (EAI) at the National University of Singapore. He received his BA and MA degrees from Beijing University, and his PhD from Princeton University. He was a recipient of the Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1995–1997) and the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2003–2004). He was Professor and founding Research Director of the China Policy Institute of the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Professor Zheng is the editor of the Series on Contemporary China (World Scientific Publishing), China Policy Series (Routledge), China: An International Journal and East Asian Policy. His research interests include both China's domestic transformation and its external relations. His papers have appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Political Science Quarterly and China Quarterly. He is also the author and editor of numerous books.
Besides his research work, Professor Zheng has also been an academic activist. He served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme on China's rural development and democracy. In addition, he has been a columnist for Xin Bao (Hong Kong Economic Journal, Hong Kong) and LianheZaobao (Singapore) for many years, writing numerous commentaries on China's domestic and international affairs.
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China has achieved significant socio-economic progress and has become a key player on the international stage after several decades of open-door and reform policy. Looking beyond China's transformation, this book focusses on the theme of governance which is widely regarded as the next most critical element to ensure that China's growth remains sustainable.
Today, China is confronted with a host of pressing challenges that call for urgent attention. These include the need to rebalance and restructure the economy, the widening income gaps, the poor integration of migrant populations in the urban areas, insufficient public housing and healthcare coverage, the seeming lack of political reforms and the degree of environmental degradation. In the foreign policy arena, China is likewise under pressure to do more to address global concerns while not appearing to be overly aggressive. The next steps that China takes would have a great deal to do with governance, in terms of how it tackles or fails to address the myriad of challenges, both domestic and foreign.
China: Development and Governance, with 57 short chapters in total, is based on up-to-date scholarly research written in a readable and concise style. Besides China's domestic developments, it also covers China's external relations with the United States, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Non-specialists, in particular, should find this volume accessible and useful in keeping up with fast-changing developments in East Asia.
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