ISBN:
9780742538634
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (379 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version China's Transformations : The Stories beyond the Headlines
DDC:
306.0951
Keywords:
China - Social conditions - 1976-2000
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This successor volume to China beyond the Headlines takes the reader even farther beyond the 'front stage' to explore a China few Westerners have seen. Seeking to bridge the gap between what specialists understand and the general public believes, the contributors challenge readers to move past the usual images of China presented by the media and to think about shared problems. In an entirely new set of essays, they explore such critical issues as environmental degradation, nationalism, unemployment, film and literature, news reporting, the Internet, sex tourism, and the costs of the economic b
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Chronology; Table of Equivalent Measures and Administrative Units; List of Figures and Maps; A Note on Romanization and Chinese Pronunciation; Preface and Acknowledgments; Foreword: Culture Matters-A Report from the Field of U.S.-China Relations Jonathan S. Noble; Introduction: The New China, a Different United States Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston; Part 1: Front Stage; 1 Trouble-Makers or Truth-Sayers? The Peculiar Status of Foreign Correspondents in China Martin Fackler
Description / Table of Contents:
2 The Political Roots of China's Environmental Degradation Judith Shapiio3 Fueling China's Capitalist Transformation: The Human Cost Timothy B. Weston; 4 Qigong, Falun Gong, and the Body Politic in Contemporary China David Ownby; 5 Narratives to Live By: The Century of Humiliation and Chinese National Identity Today Peter Hays Gries; 6 The Internet: A Force to Transform Chinese Society? Xiaa Qiang; 7 The Politics of Filmmaking and Movie Watehing Sylvia Li-chün Lin; Part II: Back Stage; 8 Fictional China Howard Goldblatt; 9 Of Rice and Meat: Real Chinese Food Susan D. Blum
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Herding the Masses: Public Opinion and Democracy in Today's China Tong Lam11 Sex Tourism and Lure of the Ethnic Erotic in Southwest China Sandra Teresa Hyde; 12 Welcome to Paradise! A Sino-U.S. Joint-Venture Project Tim Oakes; 13 The New Chinese Intellectual: Globalized, Disoriented, Reoriented Timothy Check; 14 Reporting China since the 1960s John Gittings; Afterword: China, the United States, and the Fragile Planet Lionel M. Jensen; Index; About the Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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