ISBN:
9780415560733
,
9780415560740
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 324 p)
Edition:
3rd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Asia's transformations
Series Statement:
Asia's Transformations Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Chinese Society : Change, Conflict and Resistance
DDC:
306.0951
Keywords:
Nationalism
;
China - Social conditions - 1976-2000
;
Electronic books
;
China Politics and government 2002-
;
China Social conditions 1976-2000
;
China Social conditions 2000-
;
China Politics and government 1976-2002
Abstract:
An introduction to Chinese society that uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. It includes chapters on gender and the family, the reform of the Hukou system and village governance. It draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Introduction: Reform, conflict and resistance in contemporary China; 1 Rights and resistance: The changing contexts of the dissident movement; 2 Pathways of labor activism; 3 Conflict, resistance and the transformation of the hukou system; 4 Contesting rural spaces: Land disputes, customary tenure and the state; 5 To the courts or to the barricades?: Can new political institutions manage rural conflict?; 6 Women, marriage and the state in contemporary China
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Domination, resistance and accommodation in China's one-child campaign8 Environmental protests in rural China; 9 The new cybersects: Popular religion, repression and resistance; 10 Chinese Christianity: Indigenization and conflict; 11 Alter/native Mongolian identity: From nationality to ethnic group; 12 The revolution of resistance; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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