| Description |
xiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Asia's transformations |
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Asia's transformations.
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| Contents |
Introduction : political change, contestation, and pluralization in China today / Jessica C. Teets, Stanley Rosen, and Peter Hays Gries -- Dilemmas of party adaptation : the CCP's strategies for survival / Bruce J. Dickson -- Legitimacy crisis in China / Vivienne Shue -- Society in the state : China's nondemocratic political pluralization / Andrew Mertha -- Protest leadership in rural China / Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O'Brien -- Tenuous tolerance in China's countryside / Teresa Wright -- Do Chinese citizens want the government to do more to promote equality? / Martin King Whyte -- Chinese youth and state-society relations / Stanley Rosen -- Censorship and surveillance in Chinese cyberspace : beyond the Great Firewall / Patricia M. Thornton -- The politics of art repatriation : nationalism, state legitimation, and Beijing's looted zodiac animal heads / Richard Kraus -- Tibetans, Uyghurs, and multinational "China" : Han-minority relations and state legitimation / Colin Mackerras -- A question of confidence : state legitimacy and the new urban poor / Dorothy J. Solinger -- Popular responses to China's emerging welfare state / Mark W. Frazier |
| Summary |
This volume explores the changes occurring in China today. It discusses the goals of political contestation, how the Chinese Communist Party leaders are legitimizing their rule, the specific actors involved in contesting state legitimacy and the implications of changing state-society relations |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
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China -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024011
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China -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024018
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China -- Politics and government -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004009498
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China -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153
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China -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003000103
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| Author |
Gries, Peter Hays, 1967-
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Rosen, Stanley, 1942-
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| LC no. |
2009035978 |
| ISBN |
0415564026 (hbk.) |
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0415564034 (paperback) |
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9780415564021 (hbk.) |
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9780415564038 (paperback) |
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