ABSTRACT
Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic. Key subjects covered include:
- the legitimacy of the Communist Party
- state-society relations
- ethnic and religious resistance
- rural and urban contention
- nationalism
- popular and youth culture
- prospects for democracy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
The New Crowd of the Dispossessed
The shift of the Urban Proletariat from Master to Mendicant
chapter |18 pages
Comrades and Collectives in Arms
Tax Resistance, Evasion, and Avoidance Strategies in Post-Mao China
chapter |18 pages
Contesting State Legitimacy in the 1990s
The China Democracy Party and the China Labor Bulletin
chapter |21 pages
The State of Youth/Youth and the State in Early 21st-Century China
The Triumph of the Urban Rich?
chapter |21 pages
When Legitimacy Resides in Beautiful Objects
Repatriating Beijing's Looted Zodiac Animal Heads
chapter |19 pages
What Is China? Who Is Chinese?
Han–Minority Relations, Legitimacy, and the State relations, legitimacy, and the state
