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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792187703321

Titolo

Restless China [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2013

ISBN

1-299-31857-6

1-4422-1512-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LinkE. Perry <1944-> (Eugene Perry)

MadsenRichard <1941->

PickowiczPaul

Disciplina

306.0951/0905

Soggetti

Vallues - China

China Civilization 21st century

China Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Acknowledgments; Restless China; Legacies; When Things Go Wrong; "The Only Reliability Is That These Guys Aren't Reliable!"; Political Humor in Postsocialist China; A New Electronic Community; From Grass-Mud Equestrians to Rights-Conscious Citizens; Han Han and the Public; Are You the One?; Values; The Sacred and the Holy; An Invisible Path; Chinese Youth; Global Standards; A Collapsing Natural Environment?; Awash in Money and Searching for Excellence; Food Safety and Social Risk in Contemporary China; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This compelling book explores the explosive pace of change in China and how its citizens are grappling with a dramatically new world, both in the public and private spheres. There is enormous popular pride in the ascension of China to the rank of global superpower and general satisfaction in the material benefits that the poor as well as the rich have been gaining from an expanding economy. But there is also great restlessness, anger about structural injustice and political corruption, and a search for new forms of spirituality and ethics to replace a collapsing moral order. The question "What