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This book examines facets of popular politics that are, above all, animated by a quest for justice as law, fairness and public virtue. The aim is to better understand how "the political" emerges in the interstices of state law and local moralities. The contributors to the book focus on the interplay between private and public spaces, between morality and law, and between 'front stage' and 'back stage,' to explore how the common quest for justice, which takes on state slogans but cannot be absorbed by state institutions, changes Chinese society from the bottom-up by creating self-reflective new publics.

How do we understand the evolution of central-local relations in China during the reform period? This book addresses this question by focusing on eight separate issues in which the central-local relationship has been especially salient ¿ government finance, investment control, regional development, administrative zoning, implementation, culture, social welfare and international relations.

This is the first book in English to explain the social transformation of the Chinese family from the perspective of Chinese researchers. Presenting a comprehensive view of the Chinese family and how it has adapted during the process of modernization, it provides analysis of changes in family structures, functions and relationships.

Examines the government of Hong Kong since its handover to mainland China in 1997, focusing on the anti-government mass protests and mobilisations in the years since 2003. This book assesses different explanations for Hong Kong's government problems, including lack of social cohesion, structural budgetary deficit, and severe social inequality.

This volume showcases a vibrant wave of scholarship that explores the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, consolidating an interdisciplinary framework for furthering transnational research into non-conforming genders, sexualities and bodies.

Providing a comprehensive analysis of the critical aspects of the HIV/AIDS situation in China, this book links the epidemic issues of economic and social development.

A great deal has been written on Chinese business and China's economic growth, but what are Chinese businesses really like? Based on extensive original research including ethnographic fieldwork in several Chinese provinces and interviews with Chinese businessmen, this book explores the true nature of Chinese capitalism. It demonstrates that although Chinese businesses are growing and "modernizing", longstanding traditions continue to play a key role. Contrasting Confucian ideals with Western approaches, discussing the tension between the profit motive and moral concerns, and assessing the important analyses of Chinese capitalism by Max Weber and other leading Western commentators, the book provides an exceptionally rich picture of Chinese commercial enterprise.

Through the lens of an original, detailed qualitative study with 27 girls involved in compensated dating and a quantitative study involving around 1,000 parents, social workers, police officers, and community leaders, this book offers readers both insiders' voices and outsiders' views of compensated dating.

This book examines the work of a group of young avant garde fiction writers who emerged on the Chinese literary scene from the mid-1980s onwards. Exhibiting strategies of anti-mainstream, anti-paradigmatic discourse these writers debunked the traditional literary conventions of a hitherto very closed Chinese society.

Ji uses both interview and survey data to analyse the nature and extent of the "leftover" women phenomenon in China. She argues that it is mainly a social construction and that the reality has become distorted in the Chinese popular imagination.

This book comprehensively analyses public sector reform in all parts of Chinäs public sector ¿ government bureaucracy, public service units and state-owned enterprises. It argues that Chinese leaders increasingly realise that efficient public administration is key to securing the regime¿s governing capacity and its future survival. The book shows how large state-owned enterprises continue to play an important and increasing role in the economy and in business. However, state-owned enterprises can no longer provide care for all from cradle to grave ¿ finding alternative, efficient ways to deliver basic welfare and health care is the big challenge facing Chinäs public sector.

Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the `national¿ scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. This book explores the media as both a reflection of the diversity within China and as an active agent behind these growing differences. It will be invaluable to both students and scholars of Chinese and Asian studies, media and communication studies, geography, anthropology and cultural studies.

This book uses both systematic survey data analysis and case studies to portray and compare the emerging middle classes in four ethnic-Chinese societies (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Urban China) and explores whether or not there are uniquely ethnic Chinese middle classes that can be constituted and found in these ethnic Chinese societies.

Provides an overview of how the China-Africa relationship has evolved over the years and examines whether it presents a different paradigm of 'development relations' in the international system. This book investigates what is particularly special about the development partnership between Africa and China.

A collection of essays, which present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. It is suitable for anthropologists and sinologists, and for historians and social scientists in general.

Central Asia and Xinjiang - the far north-western province of China - are of increasing international importance. This book explores the effect of global and local dynamics across the region. It argues that these multiple challenges unite Xinjiang and Central Asia in a common struggle for identities and economic development.

Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be the world's third biggest economy. The editors examine the key areas, all of which are linked, where China is grappling with institutional reforms as it opens up to the outside world.

High profile contributors explore the challenges of self-determination from the perspective of China's enterprises in social and welfare changes.

China's rapid rise and enormous success in economic terms has created new challenges, and this book examines how the Chinese economy can continue to flourish, whilst at the same time protecting the environment and giving people more equal access to the benefits of the country's economic development. Examining the key issues surrounding China's continued sustainable development, in economic, political, social and more traditional environmental terms, it assesses the costs of China's rapid development to date and in turn asks whether this can be maintained.

Written by a team of contributors from a variety of disciplines, this book investigates the rise and subsequent decline of SARS in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan. It explores the epidemic from the perspectives of cultural geography, media studies and popular culture. It provides insights into what is still a highly topical issue.