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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Introduction: China, the United States, and Convulsive Cooperation Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston Part I: In the Headlines Chapter 1: Jousting with Monsters: Journalists in a Rapidly Changing China David Bandurski Chapter 2: Youth Culture in China: Idols, Sex, and the Internet Jonathan S. Noble Chapter 3: Dismantling the Socialist Welfare State: The Rise of Civil Society in China Jessica C. Teets Chapter 4: Mutually Assured Destruction or Dependence? U.S. and Chinese Perspectives on China's Military Development Andrew S. Erickson Chapter 5: China's Environmental Tipping Point Alex L. Wang Chapter 6: China's Historic Urbanization: Explosive and Challenging Timothy B. Weston Chapter 7: The Worlds of China's Intellectuals Timothy Cheek Chapter 8: Why Does China Fear the Internet? Susan D. Blum Part II: Beyond the Headlines Chapter 9: Producing Exemplary Consumers: Tourism and Leisure Culture in China's Nation-Building Project Travis Klingberg and Tim Oakes Chapter 10: Professionals and Populists: The Paradoxes of China's Legal Reforms Benjamin L. Liebman Chapter 11: The Decriminalization and Depathologization of Homosexuality in China Wenqing Kang Chapter 12: The Evolution of Chinese Authoritarianism: Lessons from the "Arab Spring" Orion A. Lewis Chapter 13: Culture Industry, Power, and the Spectacle of China's "Confucius Institutes" Lionel M. Jensen Chapter 14: Tensions and Violence in China's Minority Regions Katherine Palmer Kaup Chapter 15: An Unharmonious Society: Foreign Reporting in China Gady Epstein Afterword: What Future for Human Rights Dialogues? John Kamm
Introduction: China, the United States, and Convulsive Cooperation Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston Part I: In the Headlines Chapter 1: Jousting with Monsters: Journalists in a Rapidly Changing China David Bandurski Chapter 2: Youth Culture in China: Idols, Sex, and the Internet Jonathan S. Noble Chapter 3: Dismantling the Socialist Welfare State: The Rise of Civil Society in China Jessica C. Teets Chapter 4: Mutually Assured Destruction or Dependence? U.S. and Chinese Perspectives on China's Military Development Andrew S. Erickson Chapter 5: China's Environmental Tipping Point Alex L. Wang Chapter 6: China's Historic Urbanization: Explosive and Challenging Timothy B. Weston Chapter 7: The Worlds of China's Intellectuals Timothy Cheek Chapter 8: Why Does China Fear the Internet? Susan D. Blum Part II: Beyond the Headlines Chapter 9: Producing Exemplary Consumers: Tourism and Leisure Culture in China's Nation-Building Project Travis Klingberg and Tim Oakes Chapter 10: Professionals and Populists: The Paradoxes of China's Legal Reforms Benjamin L. Liebman Chapter 11: The Decriminalization and Depathologization of Homosexuality in China Wenqing Kang Chapter 12: The Evolution of Chinese Authoritarianism: Lessons from the "Arab Spring" Orion A. Lewis Chapter 13: Culture Industry, Power, and the Spectacle of China's "Confucius Institutes" Lionel M. Jensen Chapter 14: Tensions and Violence in China's Minority Regions Katherine Palmer Kaup Chapter 15: An Unharmonious Society: Foreign Reporting in China Gady Epstein Afterword: What Future for Human Rights Dialogues? John Kamm
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