Socialist China, capitalist China social tension and political adaptation under economic globalization /

Focusing on why social tensions have arisen despite economic prosperity and how the state is responding, this book presents rich, original data about many of the social challenges facing China, including rural-urban migration, unemployment, the health care crisis, rise of religion, desire for increa...

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Other Authors: Wu, Guoguang., Lansdowne, Helen, 1958-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:China policy series ; 8.
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Table of Contents:
  • Growing social unrest in China : rising social discontents and popular protests / Chih-Jou Jay Chen
  • Household registration, social exclusion, and rural migrants in cities / Xiaogang Wu
  • Training the unemployed to become active job-seekers in post-Mao China / Feng Xu
  • An institutional analysis of China's failed healthcare reform / Yanzhong Huang
  • China, Christianity and the global market of belief systems / Carol Lee Hamrin
  • Super voice girls and Freezing point : media, hegemony, and domination in the new China / Barrett McCormick
  • Granting or refusing the right to petition : the dilemma of China's xinfang system / Keyuan Zou
  • The diffusion of legal institutions in China / Pierre F. Landry
  • Would democratization help remedy China's corruption problem? : comparative insights on China and India / Yan Sun
  • Conclusion : social tension and political adaptation under globalization / Guoguang Wu.