The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary Chinese social and cultural issues in the twenty-first century.
Bringing together experts in their respective fields, this cutting-edge survey of the significant phenomena and directions in China today covers a range of issues including the following:
- State, privatisation and civil society
- Family and education
- Urban and rural life
- Gender, and sexuality and reproduction
- Popular culture and the media
- Religion and ethnicity
Forming an accessible and fascinating insight into Chinese culture and society, this handbook will be invaluable to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, area studies, history, politics and cultural and media studies.
Part 1: State, Society and Education
1. State and Privatisation, Dorothy J. Solinger
2. Civil Society and its Challenges, Kin-man Chan
3. Schooling in China, Rui Yang
4. Migrant Children’s Education, Lisa Yiu
5. Youth, Exams and the Pressure to Conform, Alex Cockain
6. HIV/AIDS, Giulia Zoccatelli
7. Language and the Construction of Difference, Qing Zhang and Priscilla Z. Shin
Part 2: Urban China
8. Rural Migrant Workers in Chinese Cities, Wanning Sun
9. Urban Neighbourhoods, Stephan Feuchtwang
10. Rural-Urban Migration and Social Differentiation in Urban China, Roberta Zavoretti
Part 3: Rural China
11. Social Transformation in Rural China, Hans Steinmüller
12. Moral Discourse, Moral Practice and the Rural Family in Contemporary China, Ellen Oxfeld
13. Popular resistance in Rural China, Zhang Wu
14. Environmental and Social Change in Rural China, Anna Lora-Wainwright
15. The Cultural Politics of Labour in Postsocialist China: The case of rural migrant workers, Eric Florence
Part 4: Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction
16. Prostitution and Masculinities, Tiantian Zheng
17. One Child and More, Vanessa L. Fong, Dian Yu, and Yun Zhu
18. Gender and the Other, Louisa Schein
19. Patriarchies Old and New In Chinese Society, Riley
Part 5: Popular Culture and Media
20. Mobiles and Protest, Jun Liu
21. Philanthropy, Celebrity and Governance in Mainland China, Elaine Jeffreys
22. Corruption and Officialdom: Chinese Dynasty TV Drama as Political Discourse, Zhu Ying
23. Microblogs and the Transformation of Political Debate, Nele Noesselt
24. Screening Sexualities, Identities and Politics: Queer Cinema in Postsocialist China, Hongwei Bao
25. Transformations of Chinese Cuisines, Jakob A. Klein
26. Investigative Journalism in China, Jingrong Tong
Part 6: Religion and Ethnicity
27. Religion and Social Change in Reform-Era China, Adam Chau
28. Christianity, Culture and Politics in Contemporary China, Francis Khek Gee Lim
29. Ethnic Minorities and Religion, Katherine Swancutt
30. Ethnic Identity and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Contemporary China, Enze Han
Biography
Kevin Latham is Senior Lecturer in social anthropology at SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom.