1st Edition

Social Relations and Political Development in China Change and Continuity in the "New Era"

Edited By Zhengxu Wang, Dragan Pavlićević Copyright 2021
212 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As China enters its proclaimed ‘New Era’ under President Xi Jinping, this book examines changes and continuity in social relations and political development, investigating new developments against the backdrop of continuations of long-term trends and previous policies. What has remained outside many scholarly discussions is a larger backdrop of continuity, into which the policies of Xi... Read more

1. Introduction: Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and continuity in the "New Era"

Dragan Pavlićević and Zhengxu Wang

2. Political Obligation: The Party’s 19th Congress and China’s State-Society Relations in the "New Era"

Ruairidh Brown

3. The Impact of Education on the Formation of Identity, Nationalist Sentiment, and Traditional Values in China

Sarah Bolasevich

4. Who will serve the people? Red Collecting & China’s Moral Crisis

Emily Williams

5. Urbanization, Spatial Segregation and Class Encounters in China

Ceren Ergenc and Sirma Altun

6. Social Accountability Innovations in Contemporary China

Meixi Zhuang

7. Democratic Localism: The Case of Grassroots Self-Governance in Urban China

Zhengxu Wang, Liu Jianxiong and Dragan Pavlićević

8. Internet Governance in China: Exploration of Power Relationship

Yik-Chan Chin

9. The Rise of China’s Civil Code in the New Era: Implications and Ambitions

Hanbing Cui

10. SASAC and the Governance of Central State-owned Enterprises in the "New Era"

Zhiting Chen

Biography

Zhengxu Wang’s is Shanghai 1000-Talent Distinguished Professor at the Department of Politics at Fudan University. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan and has served in academic posts at the National University of Singapore and the University of Nottingham.


Dragan Pavlićević is an Associate Professor in China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University, China. His research spans both China’s domestic politics and foreign relations.