Modern China: Society, Culture and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138589902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 190 str.

Geeta Kochhar

Opis

This book looks at the transition of modern Chinese society in terms of its culture and literature. It discusses China’s social structure, aging population, gender stratification, marriages, cultural identity, media, cosmopolitanism, its history of communism, law, economic reforms, financial institutions, and challenges of the global markets.

Spis treści

1 Changing society in China: debates and issues Geeta Kochhar 2 China’s economy in transition Temjenmeren Ao 3 Growth itinerary of China’s rural economy and the way ahead: past contributions, present challenges and future opportunities for financial institutions Amit Ranjan Sharma 4 Continuity, integration or metamorphosis? Retracing the evolution of China’s social structure and cultural identity through history Dhriti Roy 5 Greying China: challenges and solutions Shachee Agnihotri 6 Interpreting law in China: history, communism and economic reformsAbhishek Pratap Singh 7 Foreign nationals and Chinese-foreign marriages in cosmopolitan China: statistics, state policies and media discourse (2000–2012) Wang Pan 8 Gender stratification in literature and media in post-Mao China Suvro Parui 9 Love and society in the works of Zhang Jie and Shen Rong Tanvi Negi 10 The use of Lenin in Chinese Sovietology in the 1990s jie li

O autorze

Geeta Kochhar is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She received her doctorate from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. She was awarded the Asia Fellowship for research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China, and the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India’s India–China Bilateral Cultural Exchange Scholarship. She was Visiting Professor, Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University, China; Visiting Professor, Institute of Indian and Southwest Asian Studies, Vietnam; Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil; and Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Management Shillong, India. She has edited China’s Foreign Policy and Security Dimensions (2018) and co-edited Unique Asian Triangle: India, China, Nepal (2016), India–China–Nepal: Decoding Trilateralism (2016) and Nepal’s Foreign Policy and Her Neighbours (2016). She has also co-authored 1000 Powerful Chinese Lexicon: Chinese, English, Hindi (2017).