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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2010-01-01
- Edition Number
- 3
- Pages
- 344
- ISBN
- 9780415560740
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0415560748
ISBN-13
9780415560740
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73821289
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Chinese Society : Change, Conflict and Resistance
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Ethnic Studies / General, Sociology / General, General, Asia / China, World / Asian
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, History
Series
Asia's Transformations Ser.
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
3
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2009-037195
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Reviews of the second editon:'This first rate collection will be indispensable reading for Scholars of Chinese society. Each of the book's uniformly excellent well-written and substantive chapters open by providing enough historical background onits specific topic to make it comprehensible enough to advanced undergraduates as well as the general informed reader.' - The China Journal 'I would recommend to all serious students who wish to begin studying this country.' - China Perspectives 'Should be read by all serious scholars of contemporary China.' - Asian Affairs, Reviews of the second editon: 'This first rate collection will be indispensable reading for Scholars of Chinese society. Each of the book's uniformly excellent well-written and substantive chapters open by providing enough historical background onits specific topic to make it comprehensible enough to advanced undergraduates as well as the general informed reader.' - The China Journal 'I would recommend to all serious students who wish to begin studying this country.' - China Perspectives 'Should be read by all serious scholars of contemporary China.' - Asian Affairs, Reviews of the second editon: 'This first rate collection will be indispensable reading for Scholars of Chinese society. Each of the book's uniformly excellent well-written and substantive chapters open by providing enough historical background onits specific topic to make it comprehensible enough to advanced undergraduates as well as the general informed reader.'- The China Journal 'I would recommend to all serious students who wish to begin studying this country.'- China Perspectives 'Should be read by all serious scholars of contemporary China.'- Asian Affairs
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.0951
Table Of Content
Introduction: Reform and Resistance in Contemporary China 1. Rights & Resistance: The Changing Contexts of the Dissident Movement 2. The Revolution of Resistance 3. Pathways of Labor Activism 4. Contesting Rural Spaces: Land Disputes, Customary Tenure and the State 5. Conflict, Resistance, and the Reform of the Hukou System 6. The Externalities of Development: Can New Political Institutions Manage Rural Conflict? 7. Gender, Family and Resistance 8. Domination, Resistance and Accommodation in China's One-Child Campaign 9. Village Governance, Taxation and Resistence 10. Environmental Protests in Rural 11. Alter/Native Mongolian Identity: From Nationality to Ethnic Group 12. The New Cybersects: Popular Religion, Repression and Resistance 13. Chinese Christianity: Indigenization and Conflict
Edition Description
New Edition,Revised edition
Synopsis
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 disputes rural and ethnic conflict migration legal challenges intellectual and religious dissidence opposition to family planning. The newly revised, third edition adds two new chapters on gender and the family, and the reform of the Hukou system thus providing a comprehensive text for both undergraduates and specialists in the field, encouraging the reader to challenge conventional images of contemporary Chinese society., This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. The fully revised third edition adds three new chapters on gender and the family, the reform of the Hukou system and village governance.A comprehensive resource for undergraduates and specialists, this book draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues to challenge conventional images of contemporary Chinese society.
LC Classification Number
HN733.5.C444 2009
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