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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459380503321

Titolo

Chinese society : change, conflict and resistance / / edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-14929-1

1-282-57011-0

9786612570117

0-203-85631-7

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Asia's transformations

Altri autori (Persone)

PerryElizabeth J

SeldenMark

Disciplina

306.0951

Soggetti

Nationalism - China

Electronic books.

China Social conditions 1976-2000

China Social conditions 2000-

China Politics and government 1976-2002

China Politics and government 2002-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Introduction: Reform, conflict and resistance in contemporary China; 1 Rights and resistance: The changing contexts of the dissident movement; 2 Pathways of labor activism; 3 Conflict, resistance and the transformation of the hukou system; 4 Contesting rural spaces: Land disputes, customary tenure and the state; 5 To the courts or to the barricades?: Can new political institutions manage rural conflict?; 6 Women, marriage and the state in contemporary China

7 Domination, resistance and accommodation in China's one-child campaign8 Environmental protests in rural China; 9 The new cybersects: Popular religion, repression and resistance; 10 Chinese Christianity: Indigenization and conflict; 11 Alter/native Mongolian identity: From nationality to ethnic group; 12 The revolution of resistance; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues.Topics covered include:labour and environmental disputesrural and ethnic conflictmigrationlegal challengesintellectual and religious dissidenceopposition to family planning.The newly