State and Society in 21st Century China
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State and Society in 21st Century China

Crisis, Contention and Legitimation

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State and Society in 21st Century China

Crisis, Contention and Legitimation

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Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic. Key subjects covered include:

  • the legitimacy of the Communist Party
  • state-society relations
  • ethnic and religious resistance
  • rural and urban contention
  • nationalism
  • popular and youth culture
  • prospects for democracy.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2004
ISBN
9781134321261
Edition
1
Topic
Histoire
Subtopic
Histoire de la Chine

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: popular protest and state legitimation in 21st-century China
  10. 1. Legitimacy crisis in China?
  11. 2. The new crowd of the dispossessed: the shift of the urban proletariat from master to mendicant
  12. 3. The Iron Man weeps: joblessness and political legitimacy in the Chinese rust belt
  13. 4. Comrades and collectives in arms: tax resistance, evasion, and avoidance strategies in post-Mao China
  14. 5. Neither transgressive nor contained: boundary-spanning contention in China
  15. 6. Contesting state legitimacy in the 1990s: the China Democracy Party and the China Labor Bulletin
  16. 7. Dilemmas of Party adaptation: the CCP’s strategies for survival
  17. 8. The state of youth/youth and the state in early 21st-century China: the triumph of the urban rich?
  18. 9. Popular nationalism and state legitimation in China
  19. 10. When legitimacy resides in beautiful objects: repatriating Beijing’s looted Zodiac animal heads
  20. 11. What is China? Who is Chinese? Han–minority relations, legitimacy, and the state
  21. 12. State and society in transitions from communism: China in comparative perspective
  22. Index