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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454881403321

Titolo

China's governmentalities [[electronic resource] ] : governing change, changing government / / edited by Elaine Jeffreys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, c2009

ISBN

1-135-25636-5

1-282-32589-2

9786612325892

0-203-87372-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies on China in Transition

Altri autori (Persone)

JeffreysElaine <1960->

Disciplina

320.951

Soggetti

Socialism - China

Social change - Political aspects - China

Economic development - Political aspects - China

Electronic books.

China Politics and government 2002-

China Politics and government 1976-2002

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Governmentality, governance and China; 2 Passionately governmental: Maoism and the structured intensities of revolutionary governmentality; 3 Governing China's peasant migrants: Building xiaokang socialism and harmonious society; 4 Negotiating modernity at China's periphery: Development and policy interventions in Nujiang Prefecture; 5 Building 'community': New strategies of governance in urban China; 6 Governmental rationalities of environmental city-building in contemporary China

7 'Religious Work': Governing religion in reform-era China8 Governing sexual health in the People's Republic of China; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarked on a programme of 'reform and openness' in the late 1970s, Chinese society has undergone a series of dramatic transformations in almost all realms of



social, cultural, economic and political life and the People's Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a global power. China's post-1978 transition from 'socialist plan' to 'market socialism' has also been accompanied by significant shifts in how the practice and objects of government are understood and acted upon. China's Governmentalities outlines the nature of these shif