1st Edition
Practicing Citizenship in Contemporary China
Introduction - Introduction: practicing citizenship in contemporary China 1. Legitimating exclusion and inclusion: ‘culture’, education and entitlement to local urban citizenship in Tianjin and Lanzhou 2. Differentiating citizenship in urban China: a case study of Dongguan city 3. Citizenship education as NGO intervention: turning migrant children in Shanghai into ‘new citizens’ 4. Practicing democratic citizenship in an authoritarian state: grassroots self-governance in urban China 5. Learning to be safe citizens: state-run boarding schools and the dynamics of Tibetan identity 6. Eating the rice bowl of youth: xiaojies’ everyday self-practices as doing citizenship from the margins
Biography
Sophia Woodman is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research interests include citizenship, human rights and social movements in contemporary China; political sociology and social movements, particularly transnational movements; constitutionalism, law, politics and governance in modern China and beyond; and gender and the state.
Zhonghua Guo is a Professor of Politics at the School of Government at Sun Yat-Sen University, China, and a Research Fellow at the Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Public Management Research Center, China. His research interests include political science theory and Chinese government and politics.
