China's Rise to Power: Conceptions of State Governance - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137276738 ISBN 13: 9781137276735

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author:

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

Review:

"An inspiring, highly diverse yet coherent collection of essays that explores the relationship between state and society in contemporary China. China's Rise to Power provides important insights into the strategies employed by the Chinese Communist Party to create an appealing image of its rule, and how various sections of Chinese society are responding to these attempts." - Frans-Paul van der Putten, senior research fellow, Netherlands Institute of International Relations

"These ten essays cover diverse aspects of the rise of China, all related to the state-sponsored wish for the harmonious society and its opposite, which is discontent. By looking at case studies varying regionally from Xinjiang in the northwest to Macau in the southeast and topically from feminism to memories of a 1900 massacre, the writers suggest a society with enormous and worsening tensions, which authorities attempt to ease and cover up through appeals to harmony. Beautifully edited and with well chosen and interesting themes, this book is a real contribution to the literature on contemporary China." - Colin Mackerras, professor emeritus, Griffith University, Australia

"This collection of learned essays broadens our understanding of China's rapid transformation in the twenty-first century. These valuable contributions offer fresh perspectives on the contradictions emerging in China's rise as a global player." - R. G. Tiedemann, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1137276738
• ISBN 13: 9781137276735
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 257
• Editor: Lee J., Nedilsky L., Cheung S.