“China and Globalization” book series downloads top 2.3 million!

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As of August 10th, e-book downloads of books that make up the “China and Globalization” series, jointly published by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and Springer Nature Group, exceeded 2.3 million.

The “China and Globalization” series, co-edited by Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of CCG and Dr. Mabel Lu Miao, Secretary-General of CCG, seeks to create a balanced global perspective by gathering the views of highly influential policy scholars, practitioners, and opinion leaders from China and around the world.

The first volume of the series, Consensus or Conflict?: China and Globalization in the 21st century is an unprecedented work made up of contributed articles by 38 authors, ranging from distinguished opinion leaders to scholars from around the world such as Pascal Lamy, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Edmund Phelps, Kishore Mahbubani, Lord Jim O’Neill, Wendy Cutler, Mr. Zhu Guangyao and He Yafei. In this unprecedented period of human history, they provide insights, new ideas and recommendations to the challenges we face in terms of policies for changing the “rules based world order”, global public health, climate change, education and migration, the digital and biosphere revolutions, and global governance. Since its launch on September 30, 2021, to critical acclaim, this book has received more than 210,000 downloads.

In recognition of its innovation and impact in research on sustainability, it stood out among more than 800 works and won the “2022 China New Development Award” from Springer Nature Group.

Consensus or Conflict?

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The second volume of the series is The Asian 21st Century, authored by Singapore veteran diplomat Kishore Mahbubani. In his book, Mahbubani explains in detail how Asia will become the new engine of globalization in the 21st century. He argues that the 21st century will see the return of Asia to the center of the world stage, China’s peaceful rise and a reshaping of the world order. The book has received attention internationally and has been downloaded more than 1.93 million times since its launch on December 30, 2021.

The Asian 21st Century

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The third book of this series is Transition and Opportunity: Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future. CCG invited 22 contributors including CEOs of well-known multinational corporations and presidents of foreign chambers of commerce in China to share invaluable insights, offering balanced and diverse perspectives on a range of issues related to China’s domestic development, international economic cooperation, and China-US competition. These insights are useful not only for the wider business community, but also for academics, policymakers, students, and anyone trying to deepen their understanding of this exciting period of “transition and opportunity” and make the most of China’s bright future. The book has been downloaded more than 100,000 times since its launch in February 2022.

Transition and Opportunity: Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future

Download at Springer-Nature：https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-8603-0

The fourth volume of this series China and the World in a Changing Context: Perspectives from Ambassadors to China is made up of works from 24 Ambassadors to China, discussing a range of bilateral and multilateral issues, including trade and investment, regional economic cooperation, the “Belt and Road Initiative”, economic recovery from COVID-19 and China’s Fourteenth Five Year Plan. So far, this edition has been downloaded almost 70,000 times since its launch in March 2022.

China and the World in a Changing Context: Perspectives from Ambassadors to China

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The latest volume of the series is Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang’s work The Ebb and Flow of Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on China’s Development and Role in the World. This book focuses on globalization and China’s evolving role in the world, offering unique perspectives on a tumultuous period that began with Donald Trump’s election and ended with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. This period saw the global landscape reshaped by China’s continued rise, intensifying great power competition, and a public health crisis that has changed how we live. The essays center on three interconnected themes – China’s remarkable development under its policy of Reform and Opening-up, China’s deepening integration into the global economy and rise in an increasingly multipolar world, as well as the quest to reinvigorate global governance and multilateralism to address the pressing global challenges of the 21st century. The book was released in August, 2022.

The Ebb and Flow of Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on China’s Development and Role in the World

Link to Springer-Nature：https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-9253-6

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The CCG Publishing Center works closely with internationally renowned publishing houses including Springer Nature, Edward Edgar, Palgrave Macmillan, World Scientific and Oxford University Press, as well as top domestic publishing houses including the China Translation & Publishing House, the People's Publishing House, SDX Joint Publishing Company, CITIC Press Group, Social Sciences Academic Press (China), and China Social Sciences Press to publish a wide range of content including research collections, themed compilations and original works. The CCG Publishing Center generally produces over ten monographs, compilations and research reports in both Chinese and English every year.

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China and the World in a Changing Context-Perspectives from Ambassadors to China is the latest volume in CCG’s “China and Globalization” series, which seeks to create a balanced global perspective by gathering the views of highly influential scholars, practitioners, and opinion leaders from around the world on issues of policy and governance.

Ambassadors are a kind of vehicle and bellwether for globalization. These diplomatic envoys serve as pivotal contact points between nations across a wide range of fields, from economics and culture, to health and the environment. The special group of ambassadors in this book – all based in Beijing – are at the forefront of what, for many countries, is one of their most important bilateral relationships and the platform for one of the most striking and consequential developments in global affairs in the 21st century: the rise of China on the world stage.

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Released nearly two years after the outbreak of COVID-19, Transition and Opportunity brings together an array of CEOs and senior executives from leading multinationals, leaders of foreign trade associations and representatives of advocacy groups on the ground in China to share their views on the potential and risks China holds for business as the world economy recovers.

The 22 entries in this book include contributions from the heads of Beijing-based chambers of commerce representing the EU, the US, France, Switzerland and Brazil and others, CEOs and senior executives of MNCs like Airbus, Royal DSM, Michelin, LinkedIn and Herbalife as well as representatives of global consulting firms like KPMG, PwC, Accenture and Roland Berger.

Divided into three parts - ‘The Big Picture,’ ‘Analysis and Advice,’ and ‘On the Ground’ - content progresses from looking at how countries balance their own interests with China’s for that elusive ‘win-win’ formula, to the role consultancies and advisors play in helping companies succeed, then looking at the experiences of individual companies to see how they have adapted and thrived in China.

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● Edited by Wang Huiyao and Alistair Michie

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This book brings together leading international scholars and policy-makers to explore the challenges and dilemmas of globalization and governance in an era increasingly defined by economic crises, widespread populism, retreating internationalism, and a looming cold war between the United States and China. It provides the diversity of views on those widely concerned topics such as global governance, climate change, global health, migration, S&T revolution, financial market, and sustainable development.

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● Edited by Wang Huiyao, President and Miao Lu, Vice President, Center for China and Globalization(CCG), Beijing, China

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The internationalization of Chinese enterprises is one of the most notable aspects of economic globalization in the 21st century. Despite the 2008 financial crisis and weak global outbound investment, under the “go global“ initiative, Chinese outbound investment has gone from strength to strength, while also diversifying in terms of investment modalities, destinations, and industries. However, growing anti-globalization sentiment in some countries has also created new challenges for Chinese firms expanding internationally.

Drawing on nearly 3000 data samples, using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, this book presents unique insights into the features and patterns of Chinese enterprises’ globalization. The analysis provides a useful reference for enterprises that have already gone global and those that plan to. In particular, this book investigates challenges confronted by Chinese companies when doing business in foreign countries. It summarizes research covering three angles, namely: the current situation, causation analysis and corresponding solutions, and recommendations for firms, government agencies and other institutions.

This book provides a comprehensive overview to help readers to grasp the broad picture of the international expansion of Chinese enterprises. It has important reference value for enterprises to help devise foreign investment strategy, seize opportunities, and navigate challenges in the course of globalization.

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An excellent guide for understanding the trends, challenges and opportunities facing China through globalization, this Handbook answers the pertinent questions regarding the globalization process and China’s influence on the world.

With contributions from leading experts and international researchers, each chapter covers key topics regarding China’s participation in globalization, including: China’s new role in global economic governance; outward direct investment; China’s soft power and the implications for foreign relations; global migration, diaspora and talent. An enriching range of case studies and extensive empirical research are used to explore the successes and failures of globalization in China, and to discuss the dilemmas facing decision makers in today’s globalized world. A major contribution to the field, this Handbook offers valuable insights to China’s often misunderstood globalization process.

An essential reference for academics and researchers looking for a go-to empirical resource, this Handbook provides scholars of economics, politics and East Asian studies with an exemplary selection of contemporary research on China and globalization.

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The first effort to address the gap regarding higher-end talent within the scholarly work on internal labor migration in China

Provides an essential overview of the major milestones in China’s talents attraction policies, as well as several recommendations to help further improve those policies

Investigates corresponding policies in Germany, Japan, and Singapore to serve as a basis for comparison

Provides a snapshot of first-hand reference material for relevant stakeholders involved in cooperation with China

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This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of China’s domestic and international migration. Restructuring economic development requires large numbers of educated and skilled talents, but this effort comes at a time when the size of China’s domestic workforce is shrinking. In response, both national and regional governments in China have been keen to encourage overseas Chinese talents and professionals to return to the country. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has initiated a number of policies to attract international highly-skilled talents and enhance the country’s competitiveness, and some Chinese policies have started attracting foreign talents, who are coming to the country to work, and even to stay. Since Chinese policies, mechanisms, and administration efforts to attract and retain skilled domestic or overseas talents are helping to reshape China’s economy and are significantly affecting the cooperation on migration and talent mobility, these aspects, in addition to being of scholarly and research interest, hold considerable commercial potential.

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