The Transition Study Of Postsocialist China

Author : Wing-Chung Ho
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814307628

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The Transition Study of Postsocialist China by Wing-Chung Ho Pdf

There is no denying that China has experienced, and is still experiencing, radical changes, generally initiated by the vibrant market-driven economy that began in the late 1970s. The question remains, however, of what has happened to those who, just a few decades before, experienced pride and power in being part of the proletariat. How do they make sense of the past and face up to the uncertainties of the future? This book presents an anthropological investigation into their lives and memories in order to understand their situation.Presently a working-class neighborhood in Shanghai, Cucumber Lane was in the 1960s a well-known socialist ?model community? being transformed from an urban slum in the 1940s. The neighborhood was further recast as a ?civilized small community? in the 1990s. Based on oral histories as well as ethnographic observations and pertinent historical materials, this book portrays the ways the Chinese have been making sense of and coping with radical changes during a period punctuated by shifts in political priorities, vicissitudes in ideological orientation, changes in the way they conceive of their relationship with the state and enterprises, the (de-)politicization of social identities, the rise and fall of collectivism, and the explosive vitality of the new market economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814464833

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The Transition Study of Postsocialist China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Davis,Feng Wang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804759311

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Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China by Deborah Davis,Feng Wang Pdf

Presents an up-to-date look at the social processes and consequences of China's rapid economic growth.

Author : Xiao Liu
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452959498

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Information Fantasies by Xiao Liu Pdf

Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award​ A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses Although the scale of the information economy and the impact of digital media on social life in China today could pale that of any other country, the story of their emergence in the post-Mao sociopolitical environment remains untold. Information Fantasies offers a revisionist account of the emergence of the “information society,” arguing that it was not determined by the technology of digitization alone but developed out of a set of techno-cultural imaginations and practices that arrived alongside postsocialism. Anticipating discussions on information surveillance, data collection, and precarious labor conditions today, Xiao Liu goes far beyond the current scholarship on internet and digital culture in China, questioning the limits of current new-media theory and history, while also salvaging postsocialism from the persistent Cold War structure of knowledge production. Ranging over forgotten science fiction, unjustly neglected films, corporeal practices such as qigong, scientific journals, advertising, and cybernetic theories, Information Fantasies constructs an alternate genealogy of digital and information imaginaries—one that will change how we look at the development of the postsocialist world and the emergence of digital technologies.

Author : John Logan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444399554

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Urban China in Transition by John Logan Pdf

Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China’s major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources. Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America

Author : Deborah S. Davis,Feng Wang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804769877

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Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China by Deborah S. Davis,Feng Wang Pdf

The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided into strictly urban or rural classifications. Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China draws on a wide variety of recent national surveys and detailed case studies to capture the diversity of postsocialist China and identify the contradictory dynamics forging contemporary social stratification. Focusing on economic inequality, social stratification, power relations, and everyday life chances, the volume provides an overview of postsocialist class order and contributes to current debates over the forces driving global inequalities. This book will be a must read for those interested in social inequality, stratification, class formation, postsocialist transformations, and China and Asian studies.

Author : Wing Chung Ho,Florence Padovani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000079289

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Living in the Margins in Mainland China, Hong Kong and India by Wing Chung Ho,Florence Padovani Pdf

With a range of case studies from Asia, this book sheds light on empirical realizations of marginality in a globalized context using first-hand original research. In the late 2000s, the financial crisis witnessed the fragility of high levels of market integration and the vulnerability of globalisation. Since then, the world seems to have entered an epoch of anxiety featuring populism with varying degrees of protectionism and nationalism. What is the nature of this populist mood as a backlash against globalisation? How do people feel about it and act upon it? Why should specific intellectual attention be paid to the increasingly marginalised by the recent macroscopic structural changes? These are the questions addressed by the contributors of this book, illustrated with specific cases from mainland China, Hong Kong and India, all of which have undergone substantial populist or nationalist movements since 2010. A valuable resource for sociologists looking to understand the impacts of globalization, especially those with a particular interest in Asia.

Author : Denise Y. Ho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108417952

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Curating Revolution by Denise Y. Ho Pdf

Curating Revolution examines how Mao-era exhibitions shaped popular understandings of, and participation in, the political campaigns of China's Communist revolution.

Author : Ronald Glassman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780275936143

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China in Transition by Ronald Glassman Pdf

As recent events in the Far East have demonstrated, China is a nation that is in the midst of a massive social and political upheaval. The Chinese leadership is as uncertain as the populace on the future course for modern China, and remains dramatically split over capitalism and communism, pragmatism and realism, and democracy and despotism. In this work, Ronald Glassman analyzes the remarkable changes that are occurring in China, and examines the country's difficult movement from state-run economics to free enterprise, and from Communist Party dictatorship to electoral democracy. The book focuses on the emergence of a modern middle class in China, illuminating their political and economic desires and their impact in a postcommunist society. Glassman provides a Weberian analysis of the recent radical changes, using the concepts of rationalization, the bureaucratic middle strata, the greater degree of efficiency of capitalism over socialism, the independent power of the state, and charismatic leadership to help explain China's transition to modernity. His study is divided into four sections, covering the majority middle class and democracy, free enterprise and democracy, the transition to a legal democratic state, and political culture, legitimacy, and charisma. The book concludes with the thesis that China will make the transition to democracy when the new generation of leaders comes to power and the middle class becomes the mediating stratum. Students of sociology, political science, and Chinese history will find this work to be a valuable resource, as will both public and academic libraries.

Author : Paul Goldin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691200811

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The Art of Chinese Philosophy by Paul Goldin Pdf

A smart and accessible introduction to the most important works of ancient Chinese philosophy—the Analects of Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Sunzi, Xunzi, and Han Feizi This book provides an unmatched introduction to eight of the most important works of classical Chinese philosophy—the Analects of Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Sunzi, Xunzi, and Han Feizi. Combining accessibility with the latest scholarship, Paul Goldin, one of the world's leading authorities on the history of Chinese philosophy, places these works in rich context as he explains the origin and meaning of their compelling ideas. Because none of these classics was written in its current form by the author to whom it is attributed, the book begins by asking, "What are we reading?" and showing that understanding the textual history of the works enriches our appreciation of them. A chapter is devoted to each of the eight works, and the chapters are organized into three sections: "Philosophy of Heaven," which looks at how the Analects, Mozi, and Mencius discuss, often skeptically, Heaven (tian) as a source of philosophical values; "Philosophy of the Way," which addresses how Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Sunzi introduce the new concept of the Way (dao) to transcend the older paradigms; and "Two Titans at the End of an Age," which examines how Xunzi and Han Feizi adapt the best ideas of the earlier thinkers for a coming imperial age. In addition, the book presents clear and insightful explanations of the protean and frequently misunderstood concept of qi—and of a crucial characteristic of Chinese philosophy, nondeductive reasoning. The result is an invaluable account of an endlessly fascinating and influential philosophical tradition.

Author : Bolesta, Andrzej
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447323495

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China and Post-Socialist Development by Bolesta, Andrzej Pdf

The re-emergence of China as an economic superpower during its systemic transition is an astonishing phenomenon. China and Post-Socialist Development is the first comprehensive attempt to frame China’s advancements within the context of the East Asian developmental miracle, against the background of post-socialist transformation, asking how has it happened and where does China go from here? In this book the author argues that as China transits from central planning to market, it tries to imitate the institutions and policies of Japan and South Korea during their high growth periods of the second half of the twentieth century. China’s approach – broadly in opposition to the neo-liberal doctrine – has brought impressive results, leading the author to make important predictions about the future. This book is for everybody who is interested in China, development and post-socialist transformation.

Author : Douglas Besharov,Karen Baehler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199990337

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Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition by Douglas Besharov,Karen Baehler Pdf

The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China's central government went a long way toward consolidating the social policy framework that had gradually emerged in piecemeal fashion during the initial phases of economic liberalization. Major policy decisions during the focal period included adopting a single national pension plan for urban areas, standardizing unemployment insurance, (re)establishing nationwide rural health care coverage, opening urban education systems to children of rural migrants, introducing trilingual education policies in ethnic minority regions, expanding college enrolment, addressing the challenge of HIV/AIDS more comprehensively, and equalizing social welfare spending across provinces, among others. Unresolved is the direction of policy in the face of longer-term industrial and demographic trends---and the possibility of a chronically weak global economy. Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition offers scholars, practitioners, students, and policymakers a foundation from which to explore those issues based on a composite snapshot of Chinese social policy at its point of greatest maturation prior to the 2007 global crisis.

Author : Alvin Y So
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814449663

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Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China by Alvin Y So Pdf

Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China traces the origins and the profound changes of the patterns of class conflict in post-socialist China since 1978. The first of its kind in the field of China Studies that offers comprehensive overviews and traces the historical evolutions of different patterns of class conflict (among workers, peasants, capitalists, and the middle class) in post-socialist China, the book provides comprehensive overviews of different patterns of class conflict. It uses a state-centered approach to study class conflict, i.e., study how the communist party-state restructures the patterns of class conflict in Chinese society, and brings in a historical dimension by tracing the origins and developments of class conflict in socialist and post-socialist China. Contents:IntroductionClass and Class Conflict in Socialist China (1949–1978)Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China Since 1978The Making of a Cadre–Capitalist ClassThe Transformation of the Maoist Working Class in Urban ChinaThe Making of the New Migrant Working Class in South ChinaThe Making and Remaking of the Maoist PeasantryThe Making of a New Middle ClassConclusion Readership: Advanced undergraduate or graduate students and professionals interested in Chinese studies, political science and social issues related to China. Keywords:China;Social Class;Class Conflict;The State;Socialism;Capitalism;DevelopmentKey Features:Provides comprehensive overviews of different patterns of class conflictBrings in a historical dimension of class conflict in socialist and post-socialist ChinaUses a state-centered approach to study class conflict

Author : Shuyu Kong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317963134

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Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China by Shuyu Kong Pdf

Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also brought about fundamental changes in media behaviour and communication, and the enormous growth of entertainment culture and the extensive penetration of new media into the everyday lives of Chinese people. Against the backdrop of the rapid development of China’s media industry and the huge growth in social media, this book explores the emotional content and public discourse of popular media in contemporary China. It examines the production and consumption of blockbuster films, television dramas, entertainment television shows, and their corresponding online audience responses, and describes the affective articulations generated by cultural and media texts, audiences and social contexts. Crucially, this book focuses on the agency of audiences in consuming these media products, and the affective communications taking place in this process in order to address how and why popular culture and entertainment programs exert so much power over mass audiences in China. Indeed, Shuyu Kong shows how Chinese people have sought to make sense of the dramatic historical changes of the past three decades through their engagement with popular media, and how this process has created a cultural public sphere where social communication and public discourse can be launched and debated in aesthetic and emotional terms. Based on case studies that range from television drama to blockbuster films, and reality television programmes to social media sites, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese culture and society, media and communication studies, film studies and television studies.

Author : Andrew B. Kipnis
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133558465

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China and Postsocialist Anthropology by Andrew B. Kipnis Pdf

A sophisticated and insightful analysis of post-socialist regimes seen through the prism of the Chinese case. Author Andrew Kipnis is solidly versed in social theory and conceptual anthropology building on his in-depth, on-the-ground knowledge of today's China. Kipnis is Senior Fellow in the Contemporary China Centre of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at Australian National University and co-editor of The China Journal.