Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (Asia's Transformations) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415223342 ISBN 13: 9780415223348

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth J Perry is Professor of Government at Harvard University. Her previous books include Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labour, and Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution. Mark Selden is Professor of Sociology at Binghampton University. His previous books include China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited, Socialist State, and The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415223342
• ISBN 13: 9780415223348
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Perry Elizabeth J., Selden Mark