| Description |
x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Perspectives on the 1990s / Robert Benewick and Paul Wingrove ---- 1. The Tiananmen Crackdown and its Legacy / Robert Benewick --- 2. The Decline of Ideocracy / Gordon White --- 3. China's Political Structure / Tony Saich --- 4. Leadership Politics since 1989 / Simon Long --- 5. Centre and Province in China / Shaun Breslin --- 6. Civil Society / Jude Howell --- 7. Justice and the Legal System in China / Donald C. Clarke --- 8. Young Offenders and Juvenile Justice / Nicola Macbean --- 9. Collectivism, Contractualism and Crisis in the Chinese Countryside / Marc Blecher --- 10. Village Politics / John Dearlove --- 11. New Economic Elites / David S. G. Goodman --- 12. Industry and the Urban Economy / Xiao-zhuang Zhou --- 13. The People's Liberation Army and the Market Economy / Godfrey Kwok-yung Yeung --- 14. Trade and Development: The Political Economy of China's Open Policy / John Thoburn and Jude Howell --- 15. Gender in China / Shirin M. Rai --- 16. Population and Family Policies / Penny Kane --- 17. Family Strategies: Securing the Future / Elisabeth J. Croll --- 18. Social Welfare Reforms / Joe C. B. Leung --- 19. Chinese Literature and Film in the 1990s / Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg --- 20. China's Foreign Policy in the Post-1989 Era / Rosemary Foot --- 21. China and the Pacific Rim / Paul Wingrove |
| Summary |
Updated with an afterword by the editors on the end of the Deng era and its aftermath, this work provides a survey of a nation in transition. This editors take a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach by bringing together experts from Britain, the United States, Europe, Australia and Hong Kong to examine China's economic, political, military, cultural and social achievements and problems |
| Analysis |
China |
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Social conditions |
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China |
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Social conditions |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index |
| SUBJECT |
China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024185
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China -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024011 -- 1976-
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China -- Economic conditions -- 1976-2000.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024017
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China -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024101
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China -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153 -- 1976-
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China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024175
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China -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024167
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China -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024178 -- 1976-
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| Author |
Benewick, Robert, editor
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Wingrove, Paul, editor
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| LC no. |
95068502 |
| ISBN |
0333601378 |
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0333601386 |
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9780333601372 |
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9780333601389 |
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