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

edited by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and David Strand

ISBN 10: 0198293119 / ISBN 13: 9780198293118

Published by Oxford University Press, 1998

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reconstructing Twentieth-Century China: State Control, Civil Society, and National Identity (Studies on Contemporary China)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198293119
• ISBN 13: 9780198293118
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics
  • China

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Synopsis

This book examines the important theme of reform and reconstruction in twentieth century China, focusing particularly on the Deng era. Chapters are organized around three crucial issues: (i) the extent and limits of state control over economic, social, and cultural life; (ii) prospects for the development of a civil society separate from state control;and (iii) the struggle to define a Chinese national identity which takes China's ethnic diversity into consideration.

About the Author

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard is at University of Copenhagen. David Strand is at Dickinson College.