Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society

ISBN-13: 9781032400426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 508 str.

Opis

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.

This is an interdisciplinary resource that offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary Chinese social and cultural issues in the twenty-first century. Forming an accessible insight into Chinese culture and society, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, politics, culture and media studies.

Spis treści

Part 1: State, Society and Education  1. State and Privatisation  2. Civil Society and its Challenges  3. Schooling in China  4. Migrant Children’s Education  5. Youth, Exams and the Pressure to Conform  6. HIV/AIDS  7. Language and the Construction of Difference  Part 2: Urban China  8. Rural Migrant Workers in Chinese Cities  9. Urban Neighbourhoods  10. Rural-Urban Migration and Social Differentiation in Urban China  Part 3: Rural China  11. Social Transformation in Rural China  12. Rural Chinese Families: The Continuing Relevance of Moral Obligation  13. Popular resistance in Rural China  14. Environmental and Social Change in Rural China  15. The Cultural Politics of Labour in Postsocialist China: The case of rural migrant workers  Part 4: Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction  16. Prostitution and Masculinities  17. One Child and More  18. Gender and the Other  19. Patriarchies Old and New In Chinese Society  Part 5: Popular Culture and Media  20. Mobiles and Protest  21. Philanthropy, Celebrity and Governance in Mainland China  22. Corruption and Officialdom: Chinese Dynasty TV Drama as Political Discourse  23. Microblogs and the Transformation of Political Debate  24. Screening Sexualities, Identities and Politics: Queer Cinema in Postsocialist China  25. Transformations of Chinese Cuisines  26. Investigative Journalism in China  Part 6: Religion and Ethnicity  27. Religion and Social Change in Reform-Era China  28. Christianity, Culture and Politics in Contemporary China  29. Ethnic Minorities and Religion  30. Ethnic Identity and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Contemporary China

O autorze

Kevin Latham is Senior Lecturer in social anthropology at SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom.