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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Includes index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
This compelling book explores the explosive pace of change in China and how its citizens are grappling with a dramatically new world, both in the public and private spheres. There is enormous popular pride in the ascension of China to the rank of global superpower and general satisfaction in the material benefits that the poor as well as the rich have been gaining from an expanding economy. But there is also great restlessness, anger about structural injustice and political corruption, and a search for new forms of spirituality and ethics to replace a collapsing moral order. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Restless China; Part I: Legacies; Chapter One: When Things Go Wrong; Chapter Two: "The Only Reliability Is That These Guys Aren't Reliable!"; Chapter Three: Political Humor in Postsocialist China; Part II: A New Electronic Community; Chapter Four: From Grass-Mud Equestrians to Rights-Conscious Citizens; Chapter Five: Han Han and the Public; Chapter Six: Are You the One?; Part III: Values; Chapter Seven: The Sacred and the Holy; Chapter Eight: An Invisible Path; Chapter Nine: Chinese Youth; Part IV: Global Standards; Chapter Ten: A Collapsing Natural Environment? |
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Chapter Eleven: Awash in Money and Searching for ExcellenceChapter Twelve: Food Safety and Social Risk in Contemporary China; Index; About the Contributors. |
| Subject |
China -- Social conditions -- 2000-
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China -- Civilization -- 21st century.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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| Chronological Term |
Since 2000
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| Added Author |
Link, Perry, 1944-
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Madsen, Richard, 1941-
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Pickowicz, Paul.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Restless China. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013] 9781442215108 (DLC) 2013008121 (OCoLC)822018943 |
| Standard No. |
40022133423 |
| ISBN |
1442215127 (electronic bk.) |
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9781442215122 (electronic bk.) |
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