Chinese society
Subtitle: change, conflict and resistance
By: edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden.
Contributors: Perry, Elizabeth J.; Selden, Mark.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Asia's transformations
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: China -- Social conditions -- 1976-; China -- Politics and government -- 1976-
Description: "This collection will be indispensable reading for Scholars of Chinese Society. Each of the book's chapters open by providing enough historical background on its specific topic to make it comprehensible enough to advanced undergraduates as well as the general informed reader."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rights and resistance: the changing contexts of the dissident movement / Minxin Pei; title: The revolution of resistance / Geremie R. Barme; title: Pathways of labour insurgency / Ching Kwan Lee; title: Contesting rural spaces: land disputes, customary tenure and the State / Peter Ho; title: To the courts or to the barricades: can new political institutions manage rural conflict? / David Zweig; title: Migration, hukou and resistance in reform China / Hein Mallee; title: Gender, employment and women's resistance / Wang Zheng; title: Domination, resistance and accommodation in China's one-child campaign / Tyrene White; title: Environmental protests in rural China / Jing Jun; title: Alter/Native Mongolian identity: from nationality to ethnic group; title: Uradyn E. Bulag; title: The new cybersects: resistance and repression in the reform era / Patricia M.  Thornyon; title: Chinese Christianity: indigenization and conflict / Richard Madsen; title: Suicide as resistance in Chinese society / Sing Lee and Arthur Kleinman.