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2011年12月 月次レポート（楊殿閣 アメリカ）
Location: Columbia University
Time: December, 2011
Name: Denka Yanagi
ITP Monthly Report
The most exiting season might be December in New York City. It was decorated with millions of tourist and illumination. People on streets were enjoying the coming holiday; Christmas and New Year Day. But students in Columbia campus were still enjoying their study and challenging their final term exam. I have enjoyed a lot of readings recommended by faculty. Indeed, literatures review of three books which are concerned to modern China society.
-Bryan Tilt. 2010. The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society.
The author takes ethnography method to analyse dilemma between the natural environment and the country development in this book. This study shows the reality of residents' life, economic growth, environmental policy, and civil society in a rural community; the Futian Township in Sichuan province.
-Kellee S. Tsai. 2007. Capitalism Without Democracy: the Private Sector in Contemporary China.
In this book, it focuses on the private entrepreneurs in China. The author distinguishes entrepreneurs' coping strategies into four categories: avoidant, grudgingly acceptant, loyally acceptant, and assertive. She pointed it out as Chinese entrepreneurs are more interested in their business and material interests than in changing the political regime. Bu