Reclaiming Chinese society
Subtitle: the new social activism
By: edited by You-tien Hsing and Ching Kwan Lee.
Contributors: Hsing, You-tien.; Lee, Ching Kwan.
Series: Asia's transformations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780415491372; 9780203872178
Subjects: Social justice -- China; Income distribution -- China; China -- Social conditions -- 2000-; China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
Description: Analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasize economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, the book argues for the centrality of the social in understanding Chinese development.