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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779491403321

Titolo

China in and beyond the headlines [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012

ISBN

1-280-99809-1

9786613769701

1-4422-0906-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

WestonTimothy B. <1964->

JensenLionel M

Disciplina

951.06

Soggetti

Political science

China Social conditions 2000-

China Politics and government 2002-

China Economic conditions 2000-

China Relations United States

United States Relations China

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

Contents; Chronology; Table of Equivalent Measures and Administrative Units; Figures and Tables; A Note on Romanization and Chinese Pronunciation; Preface and Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction: China, the United States, and Convulsive Cooperation; Part I. IN THE HEADLINES; Ch 01. Jousting with Monsters: Journalists in a Rapidly Changing China; Ch 02. Youth Culture in China: Idols, Sex, and the Internet; Ch 03. Dismantling the Socialist Welfare State: The Rise of Civil Society in China; Ch 04. Mutually Assured Destruction or Dependence? U.S. and Chinese Perspectives on China's Military Development

Ch 05. China's Environmental Tipping Point; Ch 06. China's Historic Urbanization: Explosive and Challenging; Ch 07. The Worlds of China's Intellectuals; Ch 08. Why Does China Fear the Internet?; Part II. BEYOND THE HEADLINES; Ch 09. Producing Exemplary Consumers: Tourism and Leisure Culture in China's Nation-Building Project; Ch 10. Professionals



and Populists: The Paradoxes of China's Legal Reforms; Ch 11. The Decriminalization and Depathologization of Homosexuality in China; Ch 12. The Evolution of Chinese Authoritarianism: Lessons from the "Arab Spring"

Ch13. Culture Industry, Power, and the Spectacle of China's "Confucius Institutes"Ch14. Tensions and Violence in China's Minority Regions; Ch15. An Unharmonious Society: Foreign Reporting in China; Afterword: What Future for Human Rights Dialogues?; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

In the third volume of this popular series, leading experts provide fascinating and unexpected insights into critical issues in today's China. They address such key topics as civil society, consumerism, environmental adversity, ethnic tension, the Internet, legal reform, new media and social networking, nationalist tourism, sex, and popular culture, as well the costs of urban gigantism, to portray the complexity of life in contemporary China-and how, increasingly, it speaks to the everyday experience of Americans.