1st Edition

China's Governmentalities Governing Change, Changing Government

Edited By Elaine Jeffreys Copyright 2009
184 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarked on a programme of ‘reform and openness’ in the late 1970s, Chinese society has undergone a series of dramatic transformations in almost all realms of social, cultural, economic and political life and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a global power. China’s post-1978 transition from ‘socialist plan’ to ‘market socialism’ has also... Read more

1. Governmentality and China Elaine Jeffreys and Gary Sigley  2. Passionately Governmental: Maoism and the Structured Intensities of Revolutionary Governmentality Michael Dutton  3. Governing China’s Peasant Migrants: Building Xiaokang Socialism and an Harmonious Society Feng Xu  4. Negotiating Modernity At China’s Periphery: A Case Study Of Development and Policy Interventions from Nujiang Prefecture Russell Harwood  5. Building ‘Community’: New Strategies of Governance in Urban China David Bray  6. Governmental Rationalities of Environmental City-Building in Contemporary China Lisa Hoffman  7. ‘Religious Work’: Governing Religion in Reform-Era China Susette Cooke  8. Governing Sexual Health in the People’s Republic of China Elaine Jeffreys and Huang Yingying

Biography

Dr Elaine Jeffreys is Senior Lecturer in China Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a member of the China Research Centre at UTS.

'China's Governmentalities presents a set of important essays critically examining reform and the role of changing conditions of state and society in the People's Republic of China (PRC)' - Newsroom, University of Technology, Sydney, 2009