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This successor volume to China beyond the Headlines takes the
reader even farther beyond the "front stage" to explore a China few
Westerners have seen. The contributors argue that the great gap
between what specialists understand and the general public believes
has led to distorted and potentially dangerous misunderstandings of
the most powerful emerging player on the global stage. Seeking to
bridge that gap, a group of prominent scholars, journalists, and
activists challenge readers to move past the typical images of
China presented by the media and to think about the common problems
shared by China and the United States. In an entirely new set of
essays, they explore such critical issues as environmental
degradation, nationalism, unemployment, film and literature, news
reporting, the Internet, sex tourism, and the costs of the economic
boom to vividly portray the complexity of life in contemporary
China and how surprisingly often it speaks to the American
experience. Contributions by: Bei Dao, Susan D. Blum, Timothy
Cheek, Martin Fackler, John Gittings, Howard Goldblatt, Peter Hays
Gries, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Lionel M. Jensen, Tong Lam, Sylvia
Li-chun Lin, Jonathan Noble, Tim Oakes, David Ownby, Judith
Shapiro, Timothy B. Weston, and Xiao Qiang
This successor volume to China beyond the Headlines takes the
reader even farther beyond the "front stage" to explore a China few
Westerners have seen. The contributors argue that the great gap
between what specialists understand and the general public believes
has led to distorted and potentially dangerous misunderstandings of
the most powerful emerging player on the global stage. Seeking to
bridge that gap, a group of prominent scholars, journalists, and
activists challenge readers to move past the typical images of
China presented by the media and to think about the common problems
shared by China and the United States. In an entirely new set of
essays, they explore such critical issues as environmental
degradation, nationalism, unemployment, film and literature, news
reporting, the Internet, sex tourism, and the costs of the economic
boom to vividly portray the complexity of life in contemporary
China and how surprisingly often it speaks to the American
experience. Contributions by: Bei Dao, Susan D. Blum, Timothy
Cheek, Martin Fackler, John Gittings, Howard Goldblatt, Peter Hays
Gries, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Lionel M. Jensen, Tong Lam, Sylvia
Li-chun Lin, Jonathan Noble, Tim Oakes, David Ownby, Judith
Shapiro, Timothy B. Weston, and Xiao Qiang
Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has
been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural
upheavals--from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural
Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in
1989. Why this should be--how Beida's historical importance has
come to transcend that of a mere institution of higher learning--is
a question at the heart of this book. A study of intellectuals and
political culture during the past century's tumultuous early
decades, The Power of Position is the first to focus on Beida,
China's oldest and best-known national university. Timothy B.
Weston portrays the university as a key locus used by intellectuals
to increase their influence in society. Weston analyzes the links
between intellectuals' political and cultural commitments and their
specific manner of living. He also compares Beijing's intellectual
culture with that of the rising metropolis of Shanghai. What
emerges is a remarkably nuanced and complex picture of life at
China's leading university, especially in the decades leading up to
the May Fourth Movement.
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.
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