Mechanochemical Synthesis of Composite Materials

Introduction: The Economic Rise of China

Zhihua Wang, Eleftherios Giovanis and Nikolaos Karagiannis

PART I: Economic Development Management Aspects

1. Growth and Development of China: A Developmental State ‘With Chinese Characteristics’

Nikolaos Karagiannis, Moula Cherikh and Wolfram Elsner

2. Functional Income Distribution, Demand Driven Growth and the Middle Income Trap: The Case of China

Yan Liang

3. Socialization of Investment and Institutional Changes in China: A Heterodoxy Approach

Elias Jabbour and L. F. de Paula

4. Afro- Chinese Labour Migration

Franklin Obeng-Odoom

PART II: Political Factors and Institutional Dynamics

5. The Economic Growth of China: Enabling Politico- institutional andSocio- cultural Factors

Philip Arestis, Nikolaos Karagiannis and Sangkwon Lee

6. Shrinking Trust in Growing China: A Trade- Off Between Fast Growth, Change and Institutionalized Cooperation?

Shuanping Dai and Wolfram Elsner

7. Exploring the Foreign Exposure of Chinese Science Parks in a Triple Helix Model

Lorenzo Compagnucci, Dominique Lepore and Francesca Spigarelli

PART III: Cultural Attributes and Social Policies

8. Lock- in and New Path Development of China Commodity City: The Role of Policies

Jan Fransen

9. Cultural Distance and Cross- Border Replication of China Multinational Corporations

Zhihua Wang, Bo Zhou and Stuart Horsburgh

10. Selling Hollywood to China

James McMahon

Biography

Zulkhair A. Mansurov is Professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan, and supervisor of the Institute of Combustion Problems. His scientific work includes the investigation of the kinetics and mechanisms of hydrocarbon combustion, soot formation, nanotechnology, petrochemistry, and carbon nanomaterials. He is the editor-in-chief of Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal (English, indexed at Scopus), Combustion, and Plasma Chemistry.

Nina N. Mofa (10.04.1946–08.16.2021) was Head of the Laboratory of Mechanochemical Processes, Institute of Combustion Problems. The focus of the laboratory was the technological development of various inorganic and composite materials both in the powdered form and as shaped products using all types of technological methods, including high-temperature sintering, self-propagating high-temperature synthesis, and mechanochemical synthesis. Prof. Mofa had authored 4 monographs and more than 300 scientific publications.

Tlek A. Ketegenov is General Director of the Institute of Combustion Problems and Professor at al-Farabi Kazakh National University. His research interests are applied mechanochemistry (mechanochemical beneficiation of minerals, production of nanocomposites materials), combustion and explosion processes, issues of metal leaching, and testing of protective polymer coatings.

Bakhtiyar S. Sadykov is a senior researcher at the Laboratory of Mechanochemical Processes of the Institute of Combustion Problems and a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Physics and Technology of al-Farabi Kazakh National University. His main scientific interest is focused on the fundamental research on the processes of crushing and mechanical synthesis of new nanostructured compositions.