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  • Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China

    The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics

    by Thomas Heberer ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book argues that a major part of the Chinese government’s road map, formulated in 2017, to modernise China comprehensively by 2049 is the process of social disciplining. It contends that the Chinese state sees that modernisation and modernity encompass not only economic and political–administrative change but are also related to the organisation of society in general and the disciplining of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Weapons Of The Rich. Strategic Action Of Private Entrepreneurs In Contemporary China

    by Thomas Heberer, Gunter Schubert ...
    This book provides a fresh perspective on the political agency of private entrepreneurs in contemporary China. Most Chinese scholarship describes this group as being politically acquiescent due to systematic co-optation by the party state. This book, however, argues that private entrepreneurs should be understood, and analytically conceptualized, as a 'strategic group' that makes use of different ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • China and Its National Minorities

    Autonomy or Assimilation

    by Thomas Heberer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 1990: This book is a study of past and present policies of the People's Republic of China towards its numerous and varied minority groups, a subject about which there is scant information in the West. It examines the impact of Chinese culture on these diverse groups and China's attempt to bring them into the mainstream of Han life. The impact of the Cultural ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rural China

    Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century

    by Jie Fan, Thomas Heberer, Wolfgang Taubmann ...
    This book reports the findings of two field studies conducted between 1993 and 2001 in seven townships and six provinces in China. The authors describe the process of rural urbanization and its related economic, social, and political changes by focusing mainly on the zhen (town), in addition to administrative offices and companies involved in the local economy, and village committees. The authors ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Multicultural China

    A Statistical Yearbook (2014)

    Edited by Rongxing Guo, Uradyn E. Bulag, Thomas Heberer, Eui-Gak Hwang, James A Millward, Morris Rossabi, Gerard A. Postiglione, Chih-yu Shih, Nicholas Tapp, Luc Changlei Guo, Michael A. Crang ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    With its easy-to-use format, this book provides a collection of annual data on China’s 56 ethnic groups. It is a resource book that profiles the demography, employment and wages, livelihood, agriculture, industry, education, science and technology, culture, sports, and public health for each of these ethnic groups. This material, which is compiled from a variety of sources, will be of great value ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

    by Thomas Heberer, Christian Göbel ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several months of fieldwork in locations ranging from poor and dilapidated neighbourhoods in Shenyang City to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China

    Institutional change and stability

    Edited by Thomas Heberer, Gunter Schubert ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Using in-depth case studies of a wide-range of political, social and economic reforms in contemporary China this volume sheds light on the significance and consequences of institutional change for stability of the political system in China. The contributors examine how reforms shape and change Communist rule and Chinese society, and to what extent they may engender new legitimacy for the CCP ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Doing Business in Rural China

    Liangshan's New Ethnic Entrepreneurs

    by Thomas Heberer ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804095Longlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book AwardMountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group) practiced a subsistence economy and were, by Chinese standards, ... Read more

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  • State and Society in 21st Century China

    Crisis, Contention and Legitimation

    Edited by Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    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 Partystate-society relationsethnic and religious resistancerural and urban ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Chinese History

    Edited by Michael Szonyi ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    A Companion to Chinese History presents a collection of essays offering a comprehensive overview of the latest intellectual developments in the study of China’s history from the ancient past up until the present day.Covers the major trends in the study of Chinese history from antiquity to the present dayConsiders the latest scholarship of historians working in China and around the worldExplores a ... Read more

    $170.00 USD

  • Constructing China

    Clashing Views of the People's Republic

    by Mobo Gao ...
    From fear and anxiety, to celebration, China's rise has provoked a variety of responses across the world. In light of this phenomenon, how are our understandings of China produced?From West to East, Mobo Gao interrogates knowledge production; rejecting the supposed objectivity of empirical statistics and challenging the assumption of a dichotomy between the Western liberal democracy and Chinese ... Read more

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  • De-politicization Of Ethnic Questions In China

    by Lizhong Xie ...
    Series Book 2 - Peking University Series On Sociology And Anthropology
    De-politicizing issues of ethnicity is a new theoretical approach to study ethnic questions actively propounded and elaborated by Professor Ma Rong of Sociology Department of Peking University in the past ten years. In the recent years, this theoretical approach has aroused biggish responses from the academic community in Mainland China, the relevant government departments, and the general public. ... Read more

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