Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, Third by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden

By Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden

This bestselling creation to chinese language society makes use of the topics of resistance and protest to discover the complexity of existence in modern China. An interdisciplinary and overseas staff of China students draw on views from sociology, anthropology, psychology, heritage and political technological know-how and covers a vast variety of matters. issues coated comprise: labour and environmental disputes rural and ethnic clash migration felony demanding situations highbrow and non secular dissidence competition to kin making plans. The newly revised, 3rd variation provides new chapters on gender and the family members, and the reform of the Hukou process therefore offering a finished textual content for either undergraduates and experts within the box, encouraging the reader to problem traditional photos of up to date chinese language society.

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Introduction 27 2004 Lowering agricultural taxes; introduction of three types of rural subsidies. 2006 Abolishing all agricultural taxes; introduction of comprehensive rural subsidies; public housing for the urban poor. 2007 Free compulsory education in all rural areas; basic health insurance for all urban residents; rural minimum income guarantee program; pensions for migrant workers. 2008 Free compulsory education for all; CMS for all the rural population. Many of these measures such as the cooperative medical system and health insurance, the provision of public housing and free compulsory education recall initiatives of the revolutionary era, but they are currently set within the parameters of the market economy and thus bear many of the hallmarks of the welfare state.

Whereas Cultural Revolution China was a relatively autarkic society, both internally and internationally, today China’s links to the rest of the globe are extraordinarily dense while intrasocietal movement and communications have accelerated. Foreign television programmes from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US and Europe dominate the airwaves in even remote reaches of the countryside and American fast-food franchises dot the urban landscape. International capital defines leading sectors of economy and finance, and fuels China’s explosive export-oriented industrialization and trade growth.

Jiang’s divide-and-rule approach to social unrest was already apparent before he took over the reins of central power. In the winter of 1986–87, when he was still mayor of Shanghai, a wave of student protests swept across the city. The fuse for these demonstrations was a rock concert by the American group Jan and Dean, which had recently performed before a packed and appreciative crowd at the Shanghai Stadium. During their concert, the rock group invited members of the audience—most of whom were college students—to dance in the aisles and on the stage.

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