Politics and International Relations 2011 (UK) - Routledge

3rd edition
Chinese Society
Change, Conflict and Resistance
Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University,
USA and Mark Selden, Cornell University, USA
Series: Asia’s Transformations
Reviews of the second editon:
’Indispensable reading for
Scholars of Chinese society.
Each of the book’s uniformly
excellent well-written and
substantive chapters open
by providing enough
historical background on its
specific topic to make it
comprehensible enough to
advanced undergraduates as
well as the general informed
reader.’ - The China Journal
This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the
themes of resistance and protest to explore the
complexity of life in contemporary China. An
interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars
draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology,
psychology, history and political science and covers a
broad range of issues.
Topics covered include:
• labour and environmental disputes
• rural and ethnic conflict
• migration
• legal challenges
• intellectual and religious dissidence
• opposition to family planning.
The newly revised, third edition adds two new chapters
on gender and the family, and the reform of the Hukou
system thus providing a comprehensive text for both
undergraduates and specialists in the field, encouraging
the reader to challenge conventional images of
contemporary Chinese society.
Selected Contents: Introduction: Reform and Resistance in
Contemporary China 1. Rights & Resistance: The Changing
Contexts of the Dissident Movement 2. The Revolution of
Resistance 3. Pathways of Labor Activism 4. Contesting
Rural Spaces: Land Disputes, Customary Tenure and the State
5. Conflict, Resistance, and the Reform of the Hukou System
6. The Externalities of Development: Can New Political
Institutions Manage Rural Conflict? 7. Gender, Family and
Resistance 8. Domination, Resistance and Accommodation
in China’s One-Child Campaign 9. Village Governance,
Taxation and Resistence 10. Environmental Protests in Rural
China 11. Alter/Native Mongolian Identity: From Nationality
to Ethnic Group 12. The New Cybersects: Popular Religion,
Repression and Resistance 13. Chinese Christianity:
Indigenization and Conflict
March 2010: 234 x 156: 344pp
Hb: 978-0-415-56073-3: £85.00
Pb: 978-0-415-56074-0: £25.99
eBook: 978-0-203-85631-4
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Contemporary China - An
Introduction
Michael dillon, formerly University of Durham, UK
This book presents a concise
introduction to contemporary
China. It is intended as a first
book for those coming new to
the subject, providing the
essential information that most
people need to know.
The book provides an
up-to-date and clear guide to
the often bewildering changes
which have taken place in
China in the late twentieth and
early twenty-first centuries. It
draws on the enormous body of empirical and
theoretical research that is being carried out by
economists, political scientists and sociologists on
contemporary China, but is itself written in non-technical
and accessible language. It does not assume any
previous knowledge of China and explanations of
Chinese terms are provided throughout the book.
Pedagogy includes a chronology, a glossary of Chinese
terms, biographical notes on key figures, and a guide to
further reading.
2008: 234 x 156: 312pp
Hb: 978-0-415-34320-6: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-34319-0: £23.99
eBook: 978-0-203-48294-0
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New
Governance of Life in
Chinese Moral Experience
The Quest for an Adequate Life
Edited by Everett Zhang, Princeton University, USA
and Arthur Kleinman and Weiming Tu, both at
Harvard University, USA
China has experienced a
tremendous turn-around over
the past three decades from the
ethos of sacrificing life to the
emergent appeal for valuing
life. This book takes an
interdisciplinary look at China
during these decades of
transformation through the
defining theme of governance
of life. With an emphasis on
how to achieve an adequate
life, the contributors integrate a
whole range of life-related domains including: the death
of Sun Zhigang, the peril caused by rising tobacco
consumption, the turning points in the fight against
AIDS, the intensely evolving birth policy, the emerging
biological citizenship, and so on. In doing so, they
explore how biological life has been governed differently
to enhance the wellbeing of the population instead of
promoting ideological goals. This change, dubbed ’the
deepening in governmentality,’ is one of the most
important driving forces for China’s rise, and will have
huge bearings on how the Chinese will achieve an
adequate life in the 21st century.
December 2010: 234 x 156: 296pp
Hb: 978-0-415-59718-0: £95.00
Pb: 978-0-415-59719-7: £28.99
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2nd edition
Issues In International
Relations
Edited by Trevor C. Salmon, University of Aberdeen,
UK and Mark F. Imber, University of St. Andrews,
UK
This is a clear and simple, but
stimulating, introduction to the
most significant issues within
international relations in the
21st Century.
2008: 246 x 174: 280pp
Hb: 978-0-415-43126-2: £85.00
Pb: 978-0-415-43127-9: £24.99
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ForthcomiNg
International History &
International Relations
Andrew Williams, University of St. Andrews, UK,
Amelia Hadfield, University of Kent, UK and
Simon Rofe, Kings College London, UK
This innovative new textbook seeks to provide
undergraduate students of international relations with
valuable and relevant historical context, bridging the gap
and offering a genuinely interdisciplinary approach. Each
chapter integrates both historical analysis and literature
allowing students to understand the historical context in
which these core issues of International Relations have
developed.
The book is organised thematically around the key issues
in international relations. Each chapter provides an
overview of the main historical context, theories and
literature in each area and applies this to the study of
international relations.
Selected Contents: 1. Diplomatic, International and Global
History 2. War 3. Peace 4. Sovereignty 5. Empire
6. International Organisations 7. Identity 8. Conclusion
August 2011: 246 x 174: 224pp
Hb: 978-0-415-48178-6: £80.00
Pb: 978-0-415-48179-3: £23.99
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