Chinese society : change, conflict and resistance

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Chinese society : change, conflict and resistance

edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden

(Asia's transformations / edited by Mark Selden)

Routledge, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book, written by an interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars, offers an authoritative analysis of contemporary Chinese society, protest and resistance. Topics covered include: * labour and environmental disputes * rural and ethnic conflict * migration * legal challenges, intellectual and religious dissidence * opposition to family planning * suicide. This topical volume challenges conventional images of contemporary Chinese society, providing a comprehensive resource for both undergraduates and specialists in the field.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reform and Resistance in Contemporary China Elizabeth J Perry and Mark Selden 1. Rights and Resistance: The Changing Contexts of the Dissident Movement Minxin Pei 2. Pathways of Labor Insurgency Ching Kwan Lee 3. Gender Employment and Women's Resistance Wang Zheng 4. Migration, Hukou and Resistance in Reform China Hein Mallee 5. Domination, Resistance and Accommodation in China's One-Child Campaign Tyrene White 6. The 'Externalities of Development': Can New Political Institutions Manage Rural Conflict? David Zweig 7. Environmental Protests in Rural China Jun Jing 8. Religion as Resistance Stephan Feuchtwang 9. Ethnic Resistance with Socialist Characteristics Uradyn E Bulag 10. The Revolution of Resistance Geremie R Barme 11. Suicide as Resistance in Chinese Society Sing Lee and Arthur Kleinman

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