Introduction : reform, conflict and resistance in contemporary China -- Rights and resistance : the changing contexts of the dissident movement -- Pathways of labor activism -- Conflict, resistance and the transformation of the hukou system -- Contesting rural spaces : land disputes, customary tenure and the state -- To the courts or to the barricades? : Can new political institutions manage rural conflict? -- Women, marriage and the state in contemporary China -- Domination, resistance and accommodation in China's one-child campaign -- Environmental protests in rural China -- The new cybersects: Popular religion, repression and resistance -- Chinese Christianity : indigenization and conflict -- Alter/native Mongolian identity : from nationality to ethnic group -- The revolution of resistance.
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An introduction to Chinese society that uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. It includes chapters on gender and the family, the reform of the Hukou system and village governance. It draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science.
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MIL
Stock Number
257011
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Title
Chinese society.
International Standard Book Number
9780415560733
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.