Studies On Contemporary China

Author : Weiping Wu,Mark Frazier
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1639 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526455598

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The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China by Weiping Wu,Mark Frazier Pdf

Contemporary China is dynamic and complex. Recent dramatic changes in the Chinese economy, society, and environment pose numerous challenges for scholars of China. This Handbook will define contemporary China Studies for the social sciences: investigating how we can best study China; exploring the transformations of contemporary China that inform how we study China; presenting the breadth and depth of the China Studies field; and identify future directions for China Studies. In two volumes, the Handbook situates China Studies in history and context. Each chapter in Part One provides an overview and historiography of how scholars have conceptualized the Chinese state, nation, economy and environment, and analyzes trends in terms of different research approaches, types of sources, and trends in the study of these broad concepts. The next five parts cover substantive themes in China Studies, including economic transformations; politics and government; China as a global actor; urbanization and urban development; and Chinese society. In conclusion, the Handbook draws together critical discussions of emerging issues of transdisciplinary approaches to China Studies, the future of Chinese historical Studies, and the future of China in comparative contexts.

Author : Tamara Jacka,Andrew B. Kipnis,Sally Sargeson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107292291

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Contemporary China by Tamara Jacka,Andrew B. Kipnis,Sally Sargeson Pdf

China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ethnicity, labour, religion, education, class and rural/urban inequalities. It considers China's imperial past, the social and institutional legacies of the Maoist era, and the momentous forces shaping it in the present. It also emphasises diversity and multiplicity, encouraging readers to consider new perspectives and rethink Western stereotypes about China and its people. Real-life case studies illustrate the key features of social relations and change in China. Definitions of key terms, discussion questions and lists of further reading help consolidate learning. Including full-colour maps and photographs, this book offers remarkable insight into Chinese society and social change.

Author : Yuhua Wang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691237510

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The Rise and Fall of Imperial China by Yuhua Wang Pdf

How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China’s history can help us better understand state building. Wang argues that Chinese rulers faced a fundamental trade-off that he calls the sovereign’s dilemma: a coherent elite that could collectively strengthen the state could also overthrow the ruler. This dilemma emerged because strengthening state capacity and keeping rulers in power for longer required different social networks in which central elites were embedded. Wang examines how these social networks shaped the Chinese state, and vice versa, and he looks at how the ruler’s pursuit of power by fragmenting the elites became the final culprit for China’s fall. Drawing on more than a thousand years of Chinese history, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China highlights the role of elite social relations in influencing the trajectories of state development.

Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134290543

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Contemporary China - An Introduction by Michael Dillon Pdf

This book presents an up-to-date and clear guide to the often bewildering changes which have taken place in China in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Author : David L. Shambaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315484556

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American Studies of Contemporary China by David L. Shambaugh Pdf

Examines the historical evolution of contemporary China studies in the United States, reflecting the growth and maturation of the field since the Communist Party seized power in 1949.

Author : Victor C. Falkenheim
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780892640669

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Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China by Victor C. Falkenheim Pdf

Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China began with two symposia held in 1977 and 1978. The first, a workshop on “The Pursuit of Interest in China,” was held in August 1977 at the University of Michigan, and was organized by Michel Oksenberg and Richard Baum. It was supported by a grant from the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, using funds provided by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Its principal goal was to use detailed case studies to explore the relevance of interest group approaches to the study of Chinese politics. The second, a panel organized by the editor for the 1978 Chicago meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, sought to apply participatory approaches to the role of social groups in the Chinese political process. The striking degree of overlap in the focus, methodology, and participants in both meetings suggested to a number of the paper writers that there was a need for a more eclectic approach which would focus simultaneously on individual and group actors. The recognition that a volume based on such an approach might serve the needs of students and scholars seeking to examine the dynamics of informal influence and power in China was the stimulus for publishing the studies presented here in book form. [ix]

Author : Volker Scheid
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780822383710

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Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China by Volker Scheid Pdf

As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret of Chinese medicine's remarkable adaptability that has allowed it to prosper for more than 2,000 years? In Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China Volker Scheid presents an ethnography of Chinese medicine that seeks to answer these questions, but his ethnography is informed by some atypical approaches. Scheid, a medical anthropologist and practitioner of Chinese medicine in practice since 1983, has produced an ethnography that accepts plurality as an intrinsic and nonreducible aspect of medical practice. It has been widely noted that a patient visiting ten different practitioners of Chinese medicine may receive ten different prescriptions for the same complaint, yet many of these various treatments may be effective. In attempting to illuminate the plurality in Chinese medical practice, Scheid redefines-and in some cases abandons-traditional anthropological concepts such as tradition, culture, and practice in favor of approaches from disciplines such as science and technology studies, social psychology, and Chinese philosophy. As a result, his book sheds light not only on Chinese medicine but also on the Western academic traditions used to examine it and presents us with new perspectives from which to deliberate the future of Chinese medicine in a global context. Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China is the product of two decades of research including numerous interviews and case studies. It will appeal to a western academic audience as well as practitioners of Chinese medicine and other interested medical professionals, including those from western biomedicine.

Author : Jean-Louis Laurent Rocca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190231200

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A Sociology of Modern China by Jean-Louis Laurent Rocca Pdf

Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise A Sociology of Modern China wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society, all the while avoiding clichés and simplifications. He delves into China's history and examines the country's many different social strata so as to better understand the enormous challenges and opportunities with which its people are confronted. After discussing the long march toward reform and the crises along the way - among them the 1989 protests which culminated in the events in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere - Rocca dedicates the second half of the book to the major questions facing the country (or, at the very least, its political elites) today: new forms of social stratification; the interaction between the market and the state; growing individualism; and the pressures exerted by social conflict and political change. In eschewing culturalist visions, Rocca thoroughly and successfully deconstructs received wisdom about Chinese society to reveal a thriving nation and its people.

Author : Ruiquan Gao,Guanjun Wu
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813237018

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Studies on Contemporary China by Ruiquan Gao,Guanjun Wu Pdf

Studies on Contemporary China collects important research findings of China's contemporary political, economic and social studies conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. This book covers topics including rural-urban integration, reflection on the future of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, analysis of the effects of risk measures on bank efficiency, new rural social endowment insurance, neotype urbanization, among others. This book is the third volume in the WSPC-ECNU Series on China. The WSPC-ECNU Series showcases the significant contributions to scholarship in social sciences and humanities studies about China. The Series is jointly launched by World Scientific Publishing, the most reputable English academic publisher in Asia, and ECNU, a top University in China with a long history of exchanges with the international academic community.

Author : Séagh Kehoe,Gerda Wielander
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781914386220

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Cultural China 2020 by Séagh Kehoe,Gerda Wielander Pdf

Cultural China is a unique annual publication for up-to-date, informed, and accessible commentary about Chinese and Sinophone languages, cultural practices, politics and production, and their critical analysis. It builds on the University of Westminster’s Contemporary China Centre Blog, providing additional reflective introductory pieces to contextualise each of the eight chapters. The articles in this Review speak to the turbulent year that was 2020 as it unfolded across cultural China. Thematically, they range from celebrity culture, fashion and beauty, to religion and spirituality, via language politics, heritage, and music. Pieces on representations of China in Britain and the Westminster Chinese Visual Arts Project reflect our particular location and home. Many of the articles in this book focus on the People’s Republic of China, but they also draw attention to the multiple Chinese and Sinophone cultural practices that exist within, across, and beyond national borders. The Review is distinctive in its cultural studies-based approach and contributes a much-needed critical perspective from the Humanities to the study of cultural China. It aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue and debate about the social, cultural, political, and historical dynamics that inform life in cultural China today, offering academics, activists, practitioners, and politicians a key reference with which to situate current events in and relating to cultural China in a wider context.

Author : Dongfeng Tao,Lei He,Yugao He
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811055805

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Cultural Studies in Modern China by Dongfeng Tao,Lei He,Yugao He Pdf

As the first book to introduce and analyze cultural studies in contemporary China, this volume is an important resource for Western scholars wishing to understand the rise and development of cultural studies in China. Organized according to subject, it includes extensive material examining the relationships between culture and politics, as well as culture and institutions in contemporary China. Further, it discusses the development of cultural debates.

Author : Yi-Lin Chiang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691237190

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Study Gods by Yi-Lin Chiang Pdf

How privileged adolescents in China acquire status and why this helps them succeed Study Gods offers a rare look at the ways privileged youth in China prepare themselves to join the ranks of the global elite. Yi-Lin Chiang shows how these competitive Chinese high schoolers first become “study gods” (xueshen), a term describing academically high-performing students. Constant studying, however, is not what explains their success, for these young people appear god-like in their effortless abilities to excel. Instead, Chiang explores how elite adolescents achieve by absorbing and implementing the rules surrounding status. Drawing from eight years of fieldwork and extensive interviews, Chiang reveals the important lessons that Chinese youth learn in their pursuit of elite status. They understand the hierarchy of the status system, recognizing and acquiring the characteristics that are prized, while avoiding those that are not. They maintain status by expecting differential treatment and performing status-based behaviors, which guide their daily interactions with peers, teachers, and parents. Lastly, with the help of resourceful parents, they rely on external assistance in the face of potential obstacles and failures. Chiang looks at how students hone these skills, applying them as they head to colleges and careers around the world, and in their relationships with colleagues and supervisors. Highlighting another facet of China’s rising power, Study Gods announces the arrival of a new generation to the realm of global competition.

Author : Mary Brown Bullock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1113180112

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American Studies of Contemporary China by Mary Brown Bullock Pdf

Author : Jean C. Oi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 052091189X

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State and Peasant in Contemporary China by Jean C. Oi Pdf

This is a study of peasant-state relations and village politics as they have evolved in response to the state's attempts to control the division of the harvest and extract the state-defined surplus. To provide the reader with a clearer sense of the evolution of peasant-state relations over almost a forty-year period and to highlight the dramatic changes that have taken place since 1978,1 have divided my analysis into two parts: Chapters 2 through 7 are on Maoist China, and chapters 8 and 9 are on post-Mao China. The first part examines the state's grain policies and patterns of local politics that emerged during the highly collectivized Maoist period, when the state closed free grain markets and established the system of unified purchase and sales (tonggou tongxiao). The second part describes the new methods for the production and division of the harvest after 1978, when the government decollectivized agriculture and abolished its unified procurement program.

Author : Meiqin Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429853630

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Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China by Meiqin Wang Pdf

This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China’s top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations. It focuses on the socially conscious practices of eight art professionals who assume the role of artist, critic, curator, educator, cultural entrepreneur, and social activist, among others, as they strive to expose the injustice and inequality many Chinese people have suffered, raise public awareness of pressing social and environmental problems, and invent new ways and infrastructures to support various underprivileged social groups.