ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary Chinese social and cultural issues in the twenty-first century.

Bringing together experts in their respective fields, this cutting-edge survey of the significant phenomena and directions in China today covers a range of issues including the following:

  • State, privatisation and civil society
  • Family and education
  • Urban and rural life
  • Gender, and sexuality and reproduction
  • Popular culture and the media
  • Religion and ethnicity

Forming an accessible and fascinating insight into Chinese culture and society, this handbook will be invaluable to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, area studies, history, politics and cultural and media studies.

part I|112 pages

State, society and education

chapter 1|17 pages

The State and Privatisation

The chase for cash and its whitewash

chapter 2|14 pages

Civil Society and its Challenges

chapter 3|16 pages

Schooling in China

chapter 4|19 pages

Migrant Children’s Education

chapter 6|17 pages

HIV/AIDS

part II|46 pages

Urban China

part III|72 pages

Rural China

chapter 12|21 pages

Rural Chinese Families

The continuing relevance of moral obligation

chapter 13|17 pages

Popular Resistance in Rural China

chapter 14|19 pages

The Cultural Politics of Labour in Postsocialist China

The case of rural migrant workers

part IV|64 pages

Gender, sexuality and reproduction

chapter 15|15 pages

Prostitution and Masculinity

chapter 16|12 pages

One Child and More

chapter 17|16 pages

Gender and the other

part V|114 pages

Popular culture and media

chapter 19|16 pages

Mobile and Protests

How mobile phones change political activism in contemporary China 1

chapter 21|15 pages

Corruption and Officialdom

Chinese dynasty TV drama as political discourse 1

chapter 23|15 pages

Screening Sexualities, Identities and Politics

Queer cinema in contemporary China

chapter 25|14 pages

Investigative Journalism in China

Pushing the limits between the 1990s and 2013