Reconstructing Twentieth-Century China: State Control, Civil Society, and National Identity (Studies on Contemporary China)

x, 350 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: Calling the Chinese people to order : Sun Yat-sen's rhetoric of development / David Strand -- Essence of contemporary Chinese bureaucracy : socialism, modernization and political culture / Ryosei Kokubun -- Control as care : interaction between urban women and birth planning workers / Cecilia Milwertz -- Ownership and community interest in China's rural enterprises / Susan Young -- Reconstructing society : Liang Shuming and the rural reconstruction movement in Shandong / Stig Thøgerson -- Bases for civil society in reform China / Thomas Gold -- State and society in Hainan : Liao Xun's ideas on "small government, big society" / Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard -- Is a participant culture emerging in China? / Torstein Hjellum -- Party policy and "national culture" : towards a state-directed cultural nationalism in China? / Søren Clausen -- Fostering "love of learning" : Naxi responses to ethnic images in Chinese state education / Mette Halskov Hansen -- China deconstructs? the future of the Chinese empire-state in a historical perspective / Harald Bøckman.…