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  • China In Comparative Perspective

    by Stephan Feuchtwang, Hans Steinmuller ...
    China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, as well as on historical documents, Chinese literary and philosophical texts and core theoretical frameworks in the social sciences. It enables readers to develop ways of putting the modern history, politics, economy and society of China into a framework in which China can be compared ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Popular Politics and the Quest for Justice in Contemporary China

    Edited by Susanne Brandtstädter, Hans Steinmüller ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    The rise of popular politics is among one the most significant social and political developments the People’s Republic of China has witnessed in the post-Mao era. People from all walks of life have responded to rising inequalities and the privatization of collective goods with a new quest for justice. Although China has remained a censorial society under the authoritarian rule of the Chinese ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State

    Edited by Hans Steinmüller, Susanne Brandtstädter ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Unprecedented social change in China has intensified the contradictions faced by ordinary people. In everyday life, people find themselves caught between official and popular discourses, encounter radically different representations of China's past and its future, and draw on widely diverse moral frameworks.This volume explores irony and cynicism as part of the social life of local communities in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Communities of Complicity

    Everyday Ethics in Rural China

    by Hans Steinmüller ...
    Series Book 10 - Dislocations
    Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei Province, central China) is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • An East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism

    Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’

    by Niv Horesh, Kean Fan Lim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Comparative Asian Politics
    Analysts generally agree that, in the long term, the biggest challenge to American hegemony is not military, but rather China’s economic rise. This perception is spread in no small measure because Xi Jinping has – in the face of patent military inferiority – conducted himself much more boldly on the world stage than Hu Jintao. Meanwhile, China has also begun conjuring up an alternative vision for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Contemporary China

    Society and Social Change

    by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson, Andrew B. Kipnis ...
    China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Ordinary & The Extraordinary

    An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's movement in Beijing

    by Frank N Pieke ...
    First Published in 1996. This study is the outcome of eight-months' fieldwork in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China (PRC), from 8 November 1988 to 17 June 1989. The original purpose of the fieldwork had been to acquire a grass-roots perspective on the dynamics of Chinese state socialist society under the impact of ten years of reform. This was extended to include People's ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Power of the Internet in China

    Citizen Activism Online

    by Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Sociology of Modern China

    by Jean-Louis Rocca ...
    Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise A Sociology of Modern China wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society, all the while avoiding clichés and simplifications. He delves into China's history and examines the country's many different social strata so as to better understand the enormous challenges and opportunities with which its people are ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Knowing China

    A Twenty-First Century Guide

    by Frank N. Pieke ...
    Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • New Masters, New Servants

    Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

    by Hairong Yan ...
    On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Sinicization and the Rise of China

    Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West

    Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday ... Read more

    $51.99 USD