China's Rise to Power: Conceptions of State Governance

by J. Lee (Editor), L. Nedilsky (Editor), S. Cheung (Editor)

Overview

China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of domestic discontent. This essay collection balances policy analysis with detailed investigation of escalating popular unrest to anticipate the future of Chinese governance & society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137276735
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/31/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

ELENA CAPRIONI Research Fellow at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia and the Academic Director of the 'Ethnic Identity and Cultural Studies' program at the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Study Centre at Minzu University of China in Beijing KELVIN C. K. CHEUNG Lecturer at the Hong Kong Institute of Education SIU-KEUNG CHEUNG Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Qualitative Social Research at Hong Kong Shue Yan University MARTIN FROMM Teaches History at Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA LAUREN GORFINKEL Lectures in media and communications at the University of Technology, Sydney and at the University of New South Wales, Australia KAM-YEE LAW Associate Professor of Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and Executive Editor of The Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences JOSEPH TSE-HEI LEE Professor of History and Co-director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Pace University in New York, USA SIDNEY Y. LIU Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong LIDA V. NEDILSKY Professor of Sociology at North Park University in Chicago, USA KA-CHE YIP Professor of History and Presidential Research Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA SHARON R. WESOKY Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA

Table of Contents

Appeal and Discontent: The Yin and Yang of China's Rise to Power; J.Tse-Hei Lee & L.V.Nedilsky Appropriating Confucianism: Soft Power, Primordial Sentiment, and Authoritarianism; K.C.K.Cheung Harmony and Critique: Chinese Modernity, Harmonious Society, and Contemporary Chinese Feminist Perspectives; S.R.Wesoky Promoting a Harmonious Society through CCTV's Music-Entertainment Television Programming; L.Gorfinkel Harmonious Online Society: The China Model in the Information Age; S.Y.Liu The Harmonious Language of Young Hans in Urumqi, Xinjiang; E.Caprioni Invoking the Ghosts of Blagoveshchensk: Massacre, Memory, and the Post-Mao Search for Historical Identity; M.Fromm Chinese Nationalism in Harmony with European Imperialism: Historical Representation at the Macau Museum; K.Y.Law Health Care in a Harmonious Society: Crises and Challenges in Post-1978 China; K.Yip Controlling Lives and Bodies: Water and Food Security in Hong Kong; S.K.Cheung

What People are Saying About This

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"An inspiring, highly diverse yet coherent collection of essays that explores the relationship between state and society in contemporary China. China's Rise to Power provides important insights into the strategies employed by the Chinese Communist Party to create an appealing image of its rule, and how various sections of Chinese society are responding to these attempts." - Frans-Paul van der Putten, senior research fellow, Netherlands Institute of International Relations

"These ten essays cover diverse aspects of the rise of China, all related to the state-sponsored wish for the harmonious society and its opposite, which is discontent. By looking at case studies varying regionally from Xinjiang in the northwest to Macau in the southeast and topically from feminism to memories of a 1900 massacre, the writers suggest a society with enormous and worsening tensions, which authorities attempt to ease and cover up through appeals to harmony. Beautifully edited and with well chosen and interesting themes, this book is a real contribution to the literature on contemporary China." - Colin Mackerras, professor emeritus, Griffith University, Australia

"This collection of learned essays broadens our understanding of China's rapid transformation in the twenty-first century. These valuable contributions offer fresh perspectives on the contradictions emerging in China's rise as a global player." - R. G. Tiedemann, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Editorial Reviews

This is an insightful and thought-provoking book, which is a useable source for students and researchers to understand China’s rise to power. The book is essential readings for scholars and students who are interested in exploring China’s governance perspective.” (Kin Wing Chan, International Planning Studies, Vol. 19 (3-4), September, 2014)

“The book's greatest strength is therefore its ability to describe the various dimensions of the current paradox of China's state governance... . China's rise to power successfully depicts the relationship between Chinese state and society in a crucial moment of transformation, which in my opinion is the book's raison d'être.” (Aurelio Insisa, Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol. 46 (1), 2013)

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