State and Society in 21st Century China (eBook, PDF)

Crisis, Contention and Legitimation
Redaktion: Hays Gries, Peter; Rosen, Stanley

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic. Key subjects covered include:

• the legitimacy of the Communist Party
• state-society relations
• ethnic and religious resistance
• rural and urban contention
• nationalism
• popular and youth culture
• prospects for democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134321278
• Artikelnr.: 38402156

Autorenporträt

Peter Hays Gries is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the university of Colorado, Boulder and Co-Director of the Sino-American Security Dialogue. He is author of China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics and Diplomacy. Stanley Rosen is Professor in the School of Political Science at the University of Southern California. He has published widely on China and his books include: Red Guard Factionalism and the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou and Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey with Analysis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Popular Protest and State Legitimation in Twenty-First
Century China 1. Legitimacy Crisis in China? 2. The New Crowd of the
Disposessed: The Shift of the Urban Proletariat from Master to Mendicant 3.
Society's Masters' Struggle to Survive: State Workers, Joblessness and
Contention in Post-Deng China 4. Comrades and Collectives in Arms: Tax
Resistance, Evasion and Avoidance Strategies in Post-Mao China 5. Neither
Contained nor Transgressive: Boundary-Spanning Contention in China6. The
China Democracy Party, Intellectuals and the Politics of Protest 7. Who
Does the Party Represent? From 'Three Revolutionary Classes' to 'Three
Represents' 8. The State of Youth/Youth and the State in Early Twenty-First
Century China 9. Popular Nationalism and State Legitimation 10. Seeking
Legitimacy Through Art: China's Plunge into the International Cultural
Economy 11. What Is China? Who Is Chinese? Han-Minority Relations,
Legitimacy and the State 12. State and Society in Transitions From
Communism: China in Comparative Perspective