The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonald's and Middle Class Revolution

This is the first volume in the The New Rich in Asia series which examines the economic, social and political construction of the 'new rich' in the countries and territories of East and South East Asia, as well as their impact internationally.

Politics & Social Sciences

Robison, Richard

Goodman, David S. G.

Social Sciences

Routledge

China Rising: Nationalism and Interdependence (Routledge in Asia)

This refreshing analysis approaches the issue of China's potential power on the international stage within the context of its relationships with other international actors, examining the effect such a large power will have on world-wide decisions.

History

Segal, Gerald

Asia

According to common misconception the Chinese political system is highly centralized. One result of this widely accepted view is that China specialists have often neglected the study of decision-making as a process. Concentrating upon the neighbouring but contrasting provinces of Sichuan and Guizhou during the decade before the Cultural Revolution, this book examines the interaction between centre and province and, without adopting a 'centralist' or a 'pluralist' viewpoint, argues that a spatial dimension is of necessity part of the Chinese decision-making process. Particular attention is paid to the variability of this interaction over time.

Centre and Province in the People's Republic of China: Sichuan and Guizhou, 1955–1965 (Contemporary China Institute Publications)

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Centre and Province in the People's Republic of China: Sichuan and Guizhou, 1955-1965

The China Challenge: Adjustment and Reform (Chatham House Papers)

Lockett, Martin

Council on Foreign Relations

Beijing street voices: The poetry and politics of China's Democracy Movement

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

M.Boyars

Beijing Street Voices: The Poetry and Politics of China's Democracy Movement

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Marion Boyars

Class in Contemporary China (China Today)

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the Peoples Republic of China. This timely book examines the emerging structures of class and social stratification: how they are interpreted and managed by the Chinese Communist Party, and how they are understood and lived by people themselves.   David Goodman details the emergence of a dominant class based on political power and wealth that has emerged from the institutions of the Party-state; a well-established middle class that is closely associated with the Party-state and a not-so-well-established entrepreneurial middle class; and several different subordinate classes in both the rural and urban areas. In doing so, he considers several critical issues: the extent to which the social basis of the Chinese political system has changed and the likely consequences; the impact of change on the old working class that was the socio-political mainstay of state socialism before the 1980s; the extent to which the migrant workers on whom much of the economic power of the PRC since the early 1980s has been based are becoming a new working class; and the consequences of Chinas growing middle class, especially for politics.   The result is an invaluable guide for students and non-specialists interested in the contours of ongoing social change in China.

Polity

North China at War

During the War of Resistance to Japan from 1937 to 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) grew from a marginalized political force on the geographical periphery of Chinese society to a position of national leadership. Explaining this transformation has long been a major point of contestation among scholars. This groundbreaking volume draws on newly available documentary sources to explore key facets of the partyOs move to power. Leading scholars from China and the West compare the varied experiences of the CCP_and its interactions with local society_in all the border regions and base areas of resistance to the Japanese invasion on the North China battlefront. Eschewing grand theory, the authors develop a Osocial ecology of revolutionO that traces the relationship between local conditions and patterns of social and political change. By individualizing the experience of the party by locality, period of the war, and stage in the development of mobilization and rule, the book highlights the importance of the military situation, CCP internal control mechanisms, peasant resistance, as well as the roles played by the Nationalist Party and intellectuals in the development of the border regions and base areas.

Chongyi, Feng

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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