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Chinese society : change, conflict and resistance / edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Asia's transformations.
- Asia's transformations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--China.
- Nationalism.
- China--Social conditions--1976-2000.
- China.
- China--Social conditions--2000-.
- China--Politics and government--1976-2002.
- China--Politics and government--2002-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues.Topics covered include:labour and environmental disputesrural and ethnic conflictmigrationlegal challengesintellectual and religious dissidenceopposition to family planning.The newly
- 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
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-14928-3
- 1-135-14929-1
- 1-282-57011-0
- 9786612570117
- 0-203-85631-7
- 9780203856314
- OCLC:
- 648986767
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