China's Rise to Power

Conceptions of State Governance
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-44678-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of domestic discontent. This essay collection balances policy analysis with detailed investigation of escalating popular unrest to anticipate the future of Chinese governance & society.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, J.

Nedilsky, L.

Cheung, S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Appeal and Discontent: The Yin and Yang of China's Rise to Power; J.Tse-Hei Lee & L.V.Nedilsky Appropriating Confucianism: Soft Power, Primordial Sentiment, and Authoritarianism; K.C.K.Cheung Harmony and Critique: Chinese Modernity, Harmonious Society, and Contemporary Chinese Feminist Perspectives; S.R.Wesoky Promoting a Harmonious Society through CCTV's Music-Entertainment Television Programming; L.Gorfinkel Harmonious Online Society: The China Model in the Information Age; S.Y.Liu The Harmonious Language of Young Hans in Urumqi, Xinjiang; E.Caprioni Invoking the Ghosts of Blagoveshchensk: Massacre, Memory, and the Post-Mao Search for Historical Identity; M.Fromm Chinese Nationalism in Harmony with European Imperialism: Historical Representation at the Macau Museum; K.Y.Law Health Care in a Harmonious Society: Crises and Challenges in Post-1978 China; K.Yip Controlling Lives and Bodies: Water and Food Security in Hong Kong; S.K.Cheung

Über Autor(innen)

ELENA CAPRIONI Research Fellow at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia and the Academic Director of the 'Ethnic Identity and Cultural Studies' program at the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Study Centre at Minzu University of China in Beijing KELVIN C. K. CHEUNG Lecturer at the Hong Kong Institute of Education SIU-KEUNG CHEUNG Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Qualitative Social Research at Hong Kong Shue Yan University MARTIN FROMM Teaches History at Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA LAUREN GORFINKEL Lectures in media and communications at the University of Technology, Sydney and at the University of New South Wales, Australia KAM-YEE LAW Associate Professor of Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and Executive Editor of The Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences JOSEPH TSE-HEI LEE Professor of History and Co-director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Pace University in New York, USA SIDNEY Y. LIU Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong LIDA V. NEDILSKY Professor of Sociology at North Park University in Chicago, USA KA-CHE YIP Professor of History and Presidential Research Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA SHARON R. WESOKY Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA