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Restless China (Paperback)
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Restless China (Paperback)
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This compelling book explores the explosive pace of change in China
and how its citizens are grappling with a dramatically new world,
both in the public and private spheres. China's stratospheric
growth has made it the second largest economy in the world-and one
of the most unequal. Marxist ideology and socialist ideals have
almost completely collapsed, replaced by a combination of
materialism and assertive nationalism. The vast migration of labor
from countryside to city has continued apace. The pressures of a
hypercompetitive market economy are ripping apart the traditional
family and threatening the environment. Corruption has reached new
heights. The political system is even more rigid, but perhaps more
brittle, than a decade ago. There is enormous popular pride in the
ascension of China to the rank of global superpower and general
satisfaction in the material benefits that the poor as well as the
rich have been gaining from an expanding economy. But there is also
great restlessness, anger about structural injustice and political
corruption, and a search for new forms of spirituality and ethics
to replace a collapsing moral order. The question "What does it
mean, in the new day, to be Chinese?" lurks just beneath the
surface. This unique interdisciplinary book frames this central
issue through an innovative set of case studies on such
cutting-edge topics as reality dating shows, countercultural
invented language, star bloggers, faith healers, and subversive
jokes. Contributions by: Jeremy Brown, X. L. Ding, Hsiung
Ping-chen, William Jankowiak, Shuyu Kong, Perry Link, Richard P.
Madsen, David Moser, Paul G. Pickowicz, Su Xiaokang, Xiao Qiang,
Yunxiang Yan, and Yang Lijun.
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