State and Society in 21st Century China
Crisis, Contention and Legitimation
Edited by Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen
Series: Asia's Transformations
List Price: $49.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-33205-7
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 05/13/2004
- Pages: 280
- Trim Size: 234X156
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About the Book
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.