State and Society in 21st Century China, Hays Gries, Peter
Автор: Wang, Yuhua Название: Rise and Fall of Imperial China ISBN: 0691215170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691215174 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 15840.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China's history can help us better understand state building.
Wang argues that Chinese rulers faced a fundamental trade-off that he calls the sovereign's dilemma: a coherent elite that could collectively strengthen the state could also overthrow the ruler. This dilemma emerged because strengthening state capacity and keeping rulers in power for longer required different social networks in which central elites were embedded. Wang examines how these social networks shaped the Chinese state, and vice versa, and he looks at how the ruler's pursuit of power by fragmenting the elites became the final culprit for China's fall.
Drawing on more than a thousand years of Chinese history, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China highlights the role of elite social relations in influencing the trajectories of state development.
Автор: Zhang Название: The River, the Plain, and the State ISBN: 1107155983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107155985 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16157.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first history of the human-engineered flooding of China`s Yellow River, and how the creation of the delta affected the state, the environment, and the inhabitants of the region.
Автор: K. Mok Название: Intellectuals and the State in Post-Mao China ISBN: 0333689445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333689448 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 21661.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This publication is a sociological study of the ideological formation of Chinese intellectuals, their place in the social structure and their role in influencing and effecting social and political change. It includes histories of prominent figures from the Chinese intellectual community.
Автор: G. Chin Название: China`s Automotive Modernization ISBN: 134930610X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349306107 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As a window for understanding the relationship between globalization and the state`s pursuit of national industrial development, this book examines how and why the Chinese government succeeded in leveraging China`s international competitive advantages to modernize the country`s automotive industry.
Описание: Presents a hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. This book illuminates not only the different visions of revolutionary transformation but also the dense entanglements among those in the top echelon of the party.
Автор: Li Lan Название: Popular Religion in Modern China: The New Role of Nuo ISBN: 1409436780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409436782 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Since the early 1980s, China`s rapid economic growth and social transformation have greatly altered the role of popular religion in the country. This book makes a new contribution to the research on the phenomenon by examining the role which popular religion has played in modern Chinese politics.
In July 2009, violence erupted among Uyghurs, Chinese state police, and Han residents of ?r?mqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, in northwest China, making international headlines, and introducing many to tensions in the area. But conflict in the region has deep roots. Now available in paperback, Holy War in China remains the first comprehensive and balanced history of a late nineteenth-century Muslim rebellion in Xinjiang, which led to the establishment of an independent Islamic state under Ya'q?b Beg. That independence was lost in 1877, when the Qing army recaptured the region and incorporated it into the Chinese state, known today as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Hodong Kim offers readers the first English-language history of the rebellion since 1878 to be based on primary sources in Islamic languages as well as Chinese, complemented by British and Ottoman archival documents and secondary sources in Russian, English, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, and Turkish. His pioneering account of past events offers much insight into current relations.
Автор: Diamant Neil J., Lubman Stanley B., O`Brien Kevin J. Название: Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice ISBN: 0804771804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804771801 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3773.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This interdisciplinary book of essays addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal process and legal institutions in contemporary China. The introduction by the editors and the individual chapters attempt, for the first time, to bring to bear on the study of Chinese law the law-and-society scholarship that has enriched Western legal studies.
Автор: Matsuzawa Название: Activating China ISBN: 0815360347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815360346 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Based on studies of transnational activism, this volume examines the transnational social and environmental advocacy of foreign NGOs in China over the last thirty years. It draws on ethnographic fieldwork in China and archival work in the United States, following the lives of Chinese activists, researchers and government officials.
Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed challenge to these conventional understandings by tracing the disempowerment of minority communities to the very beginnings of China's modern development. Focusing on the emergence of private and state corporations in Yunnan Province during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the book reveals how entrepreneurs centralized corporate power even as they expanded their businesses throughout the Southwest and into Tibet, Southeast Asia, and eastern China. Bringing wealth and cosmopolitan lifestyles to their hometowns, the merchant-owners also gained greater access to commodities at the expense of the Southwest's many indigenous minority communities. Meanwhile, new concepts of development shaped the creation of state-run corporations, which further concentrated resources in the hands of outsiders. The book reveals how important new ideas and structures of power, now central to the Communist Party's repertoire of rule and oppression, were forged, not along China's east coast, but along the nation's internal borderlands. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to learn about China's unique state capitalism and its contribution to inequality.
Описание: Over the last decade, Chinese energy companies have engaged in acquisitions of oil and gas in Africa. This book investigates the activities of Chinese energy companies throughout African countries. It will serve as a valuable resource for those involved in the fields of foreign policy, international security and international relations.
Автор: Neil J. Diamant Название: Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society ISBN: 1501770160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501770166 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3756.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In Useful Bullshit Neil J. Diamant pulls back the curtain on early constitutional conversations between citizens and officials in the PRC. Scholars have argued that China, like the former USSR, promulgated constitutions to enhance its domestic and international legitimacy by opening up the constitution-making process to ordinary people, and by granting its citizens political and socioeconomic rights. But what did ordinary officials and people say about their constitutions and rights? Did constitutions contribute to state legitimacy?
Over the course of four decades, the PRC government encouraged millions of citizens to pose questions about, and suggest revisions to, the draft of a new constitution. Seizing this opportunity, people asked both straightforward questions like "what is a state?", but also others that, through implication, harshly criticized the document and the government that sponsored it. They pressed officials to clarify the meaning of words, phrases, and ideas in the constitution, proposing numerous revisions. Despite many considering the document "bullshit," successive PRC governments have promulgated it, amending the constitution, debating it at length, and even inaugurating a "Constitution Day."
Drawing upon a wealth of archival sources from the Maoist and reform eras, Diamant deals with all facets of this constitutional discussion, as well as its afterlives in the late '50s, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao era. Useful Bullshit illuminates how the Chinese government understands and makes use of the constitution as a political document, and how a vast array of citizens—police, workers, university students, women, and members of different ethnic and religious groups—have responded.
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