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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781078103321

Titolo

Chinese politics : state, society and the market / / edited by Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-135-14998-4

1-135-14999-2

1-282-57014-5

9786612570148

0-203-85642-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Asia's Transformations

Altri autori (Persone)

GriesPeter Hays <1967->

RosenStanley <1942->

Disciplina

320.951

951.06

Soggetti

China Economic conditions 2000-

China Politics and government 2002-

China Social conditions 2000-

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; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Political change, contestation, and pluralization in China today; 1 Dilemmas of party adaptation: The CCP's strategies for survival; 2 Legitimacy crisis in China?; 3 Society in the state: China's nondemocratic political pluralization; 4 Protest leadership in rural China; 5 Tenuous tolerance in China's countryside; 6 Do Chinese citizens want the government to do more to promote equality?; 7 Chinese youth and state-society relations

8 Censorship and surveillance in Chinese cyberspace: Beyond the Great Firewall9 The politics of art repatriation: Nationalism, state legitimation, and Beijing's looted zodiac animal heads; 10 Tibetans, Uyghurs, and multinational "China": Han-minority relations and state legitimation; 11 A question of confidence: State legitimacy and the new urban poor; 12 Popular responses to China's emerging welfare state; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Written by a team of leading China scholars this text interrogates the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st Century China.Despite the continuing economic successes and rising international prestige of China there has been increasing social protests over corruption, land seizures, environmental concerns, and homeowner movements. Such political contestation presents an opportunity to explore the changes occurring in China today - what are the goals of political contestation, how are Chinese Communist Party leaders legitimizing their rule, who are the specific actors involve