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Author Wu, Guoguang

Title Socialist China, Capitalist China : Social Tension and Political Adaptation Under Economic Globalization
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages)
Series China Policy Series
China policy series.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Growing social unrest in China: Rising social discontents and popular protests; 3 Household registration, social exclusion, and rural migrants in cities; 4 Training the unemployed to become active job-seekers in post-Mao China; 5 An institutional analysis of China's failed healthcare reform; 6 China, Christianity and the global market of belief systems; 7 Super Voice Girls and Freezing Point: Media, hegemony, and domination in the new China
Summary Focusing on why social tensions have arisen despite economic prosperity and how the state is responding, this book presents rich, original data about many of the social challenges facing China, including rural-urban migration, unemployment, the health care crisis, rise of religion, desire for increased individualism, and new mass movements
Notes Print version record
Subject Capitalism -- China
Socialism -- China
Capitalism
Economic history
Politics and government
Social conditions
Socialism
SUBJECT China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
China -- Politics and government -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004009498
China -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003000103
Subject China
Form Electronic book
Author Lansdowne, Helen
ISBN 9780203880111
0203880110