China in and beyond the headlines / edited by Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen.

ISBN:

9781442209060

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Author:

Weston, Timothy B., 1964-

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Series:

China beyond the headlines ; 3

Contents:

Introduction : China, the United States and convulsive cooperation / Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston -- Jousting with monsters : journalists in a rapidly changing China / David Bandurski -- Youth culture in China : idols, sex, and the Internet / Jonathan S. Noble -- Dismantling the socialist welfare state : the rise of civil society in China / Jessica C. Teets -- Mutually assured destruction or dependence? : US and Chinese perspectives on China's military development / Andrew S. Erickson -- China's environmental tipping point / Alex L. Wang -- China's historic urbanization : explosive and challenging / Timothy B. Weston -- The worlds of China's intellectuals / Timothy Cheek -- Why does China fear the Internet? / Susan D. Blum -- Producing exemplary consumers : tourism and leisure culture in China's nation-building project / Travis Klingberg & Tim Oakes -- Professionals and populists : the paradoxes of China's legal reforms / Benjamin L. Liebman -- The decriminalization and depathologization of homosexuality in China / Wenqing Kang -- An evolution of Chinese authoritarianism : lessons from the "Arab Spring" / Orion Lewis -- Culture industry, power and the spectacle of China's "Confucius institutes" / Lionel M. Jensen -- Tensions and violence in China's minority regions / Katherine Palmer Kaup -- An unharmonious society : foreign reporting in China / Gady Epstein -- Afterword : what future for human rights dialogues? / John Kamm.

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Geographic Term:

China -- Social conditions -- 2000-

China -- Politics and government -- 2002-

China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-

China -- Relations -- United States.

United States -- Relations -- China.

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Weston, Timothy B., 1964-

Jensen, Lionel M.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2012

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Summary

In the third volume of this popular series, leading experts provide fascinating and unexpected insights into critical issues of culture, economy, politics, and society in today's China. This world, outside the reach of state control and either misunderstood or unreported in Western media, gains clarity and dimension from the fresh insights of a prominent group of activists, investigative journalists, lawyers, scholars, and travelers, who share a common interest in lessening the profound information gap between China and the rest of the world. In sixteen new essays, they address such key topics as civil society, consumerism, environmental adversity, ethnic tension, the Internet, legal reform, new media and social networking, nationalist tourism, sex and popular culture, as well the costs of urban gigantism to portray the complexity of life in contemporary China--and how, increasingly, it speaks to the everyday experience of Americans.

Contributions by: David Bandurski, Susan D. Blum, Timothy Cheek, Gady Epstein, Andrew S. Erickson, Lionel M. Jensen, John Kamm, Wenquing Kang, Katherine Palmer Kaup, Travis Klingberg, Orion A. Lewis, Benjamin L. Liebman, Jonathan S. Noble, Tim Oakes, Jessica C. Teets, Alex L. Wang, and Timothy B. Weston.

Author Notes

Timothy B. Weston is associate professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Lionel M. Jensen is associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

In these high-quality scholarly essays, specialists from various fields investigate the most critical issues that China is facing and making a great effort to deal with. They include China's relationships with the US and other countries, human rights issues, social welfare reform, a sharp rich-poor division, rapidly growing popular culture, emerging consumerism and tourism, rapid urbanization, economic development and environmental protection, intellectuals of different ideologies, the establishment of a modern legal system, ethnic tensions in minority regions, the decriminalization and depathologization of homosexuality, and China's efforts to introduce its language and culture to the world. The in-depth discussions of these issues are based on the most current data and information resources, and they really go beyond the headlines of limited Western media coverage on China. Providing a panoramic view of contemporary China and comprehensive coverage of Chinese economic, political, technological, social, and cultural changes, as well as the influence of these changes on the whole world, this is a must read for all scholars and students of China studies. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. A. Y. Lee George Mason University