Chinese Culture & Society

This book critically and comprehensively examines China’s welfare development amidst its rapid economic growth and increasing social tensions. It covers the main policy areas from China’s inception of the open door policy in 1978 to the new administration of Jinping Xi and Keqiang Li, including soci..

Central Asia and Xinjiang, the far northwestern province of China, are of increasing international importance. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the region’s significance historically, of the contemporary international forces which affect the region, and of current political, economic a..

China’s literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. The eleven essays in this book offer an introduction to some of the most important works published at the turn of the twenty-first century...

This title was first published in 1980...

Richly illustrated with original photographs, this book examines Chinese entertainment ranging from film and opera to rock and tourism, on the mainland and outside it, in the Chinese diaspora. It argues that entertainment, when tied up with history, heritage and ethnicity, is a paradox, in that it i..

_x005F_x000D_ This book addresses environmental issues by distinctively suggesting that an aesthetic approach inspired from ancient Chinese tradition could help us overcome the many problems that human beings have created at local and global levels. Although its main focus is the traditional and cur..

_x000D_ This book addresses environmental issues by distinctively suggesting that an aesthetic approach inspired from ancient Chinese tradition could help us overcome the many problems that human beings have created at local and global levels. Although its main focus is the traditional and current c..

This book explores how Muslim revivalists in China’s Qinghai Province employ individual agency to reconcile transnational notions of religious orthodoxy with the materialist rationalism of atheist China...

This book explores how Muslim revivalists in China’s Qinghai Province employ individual agency to reconcile transnational notions of religious orthodoxy with the materialist rationalism of atheist China. Based on a year immersed in one of China’s most concentrated and conservative urban Muslim commu..

This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. The fully revised third edition adds three new chapters on gender and the family, the reform of the Hukou system and village governance. _x000D_ A compr..

This book examines music entertainment programmes on China Central Television, China’s only national level television network. It explores how programmes project a nuanced image of China’s identity and position in the world which is in step with China’s party-state nationalism, and at the same time ..

This book challenges the image of Taiwan’s marginalization and seeks to understand Taiwan in terms of the impacts it makes globally, regionally and transnationally. It takes a multi-disciplinary approach covering themes such as markets and trading, diplomacy, collective action, the internet, film, l..