1. Introduction: Political Demography and Anthropological Perspectives of Demographic Phenomena -- 2. Eldercare Services in Urban China -- 3. China’s Population Change and Its Geopolitical Impact -- 4. The PRC Belt and Road Initiative: An Accelerator to Achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? -- 5. Creating Legitimacy and Exercising Political Power: An Analysis of the Functions of the Chinese Constitutional Preamble Based on a Linguistic Study -- 6. Revisit Chinese Exceptionalism through the Lens of New Foreign Relations Law -- 7. Coordination and Interaction between Intra-Party Regulations and National Laws in the Context of Supervision System Reform -- 8. What Influences Fertility Plans of China’s Migrant Populations? Mechanism Analysis Based on House Prices Perspective -- 9. Conclusion: Future of China’s Demography: Legal, Social, Political, and Economic Reforms.

This book uses complexity thinking to explore China’s demography and population-driven geopolitics within and beyond mainland China. From a multidisciplinary perspective, the book is relevant to the debates of Chinese demography studies and politics of contemporary China. It combines international relations approaches, demography research, and legal studies to conceive the recent demographic trends and social transformations in China and across the world. The book prioritizes the anthropological viewpoint to provide a better understanding of demographic phenomena and combine an anthropological demography perspective with complexity thinking and geopolitics. This book will interest scholars of China, of geopolitics, and demographers. Armando Aliu is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for Global Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg (Germany). He is member of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Max Planck Alumni Association, UN Migration Research Hub and ACUNS.