China in and beyond the headlines / edited by Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weston, Timothy B., 1964-

Jensen, Lionel M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Social conditions--2000-.

China.

Social conditions.

China--Politics and government--2002-.

Politics and government.

China--Economic conditions--2000-.

Economic conditions.

China--Relations--United States.

Relations.

United States.

United States--Relations--China.

Physical Description:

xxv, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]

Summary:

In the third volume of this popular series, leading experts provide fascinating and unexpected insights into critical issues of culture, economy, politics, and society in today's China. This world, outside the reach of state control and either misunderstood or unreported in Western media, gains clarity and dimension from the fresh insights of a prominent group of activists, investigative journalists, lawyers, scholars, and travelers, who share a common interest in lessening the profound information gap between China and the rest of the world. In sixteen new essays, they address such key topics as civil society, consumerism, environmental adversity, ethnic tension, the Internet, legal reform, new media and social networking, nationalist tourism, sex and popular culture, as well the costs of urban gigantism to portray the complexity of life in contemporary China_and how, increasingly, it speaks to the everyday experience of the United States.

Contents:

Introduction : China, the United States and convulsive cooperation / Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston

Jousting with monsters : journalists in a rapidly changing China / David Bandurski

Youth culture in China : idols, sex, and the Internet / Jonathan S. Noble

Dismantling the socialist welfare state : the rise of civil society in China / Jessica C. Teets

Mutually assured destruction or dependence? : US and Chinese perspectives on China's military development / Andrew S. Erickson

China's environmental tipping point / Alex L. Wang

China's historic urbanization : explosive and challenging / Timothy B. Weston

The worlds of China's intellectuals / Timothy Cheek

Why does China fear the Internet? / Susan D. Blum

Producing exemplary consumers : tourism and leisure culture in China's nation-building project / Travis Klingberg & Tim Oakes

Professionals and populists : the paradoxes of China's legal reforms / Benjamin L. Liebman

The decriminalization and depathologization of homosexuality in China / Wenqing Kang

An evolution of Chinese authoritarianism : lessons from the "Arab Spring" / Orion Lewis

Culture industry, power and the spectacle of China's "Confucius institutes" / Lionel M. Jensen

Tensions and violence in China's minority regions / Katherine Palmer Kaup

An unharmonious society : foreign reporting in China / Gady Epstein

Afterword : what future for human rights dialogues? / John Kamm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442209046

1442209046

9781442209053

1442209054

9781442209060

1442209062

OCLC:

742512332