CHINA: CULTURE AND SOCIETY
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NEW
FORTHCOMING
FORTHCOMING
The New Rich in China
A Critique of Modern Chinese Architecture
Chinese Kinship
Jianfei Zhu, University of Melbourne, Australia
Edited by Susanne Brandtstädter, University of Oslo, Norway and Gonçalo Duro dos Santos, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Future Rulers, Present Lives Edited by David Goodman, University of Technology, Australia Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although China’s new rich are certainly a consequence of globalization, there remains a need for caution in assuming either that China’s new rich are a middle class, or that if they are that they should immediately be equated with a universal middle class. Including sections on class, status and power, agency and structure and lifestyle The New Rich in China investigates the political, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the emergent new rich in China, the similarities and differences to similar phenomenon elsewhere and the consequences of the new rich for China itself. In doing so it links the importance of China to the world economy and helps us understand how the growth of China’s new rich may influence our understanding of social change elsewhere. This is a subject that will become increasingly important as China continues its development and private entrepreneurship continues to be encouraged and as such The New Rich in China will be an invaluable volume for students and scholars of Chinese studies, history and politics and social change. Selected Contents: Part 1: Introduction 1. The New Rich in China: The Consequences of Social Change David Goodman and Xiaowei Zang Part 2: Class, Status, and Power 2. Why There is No New Middle Class David Goodman 3. Class and Stratum: The Politics of Description Yingjie Guo 4. Social Status Xiaowei Zang Part 3:Agencies and Structures 5. CEOs and the Corporate Sector Colin Hawes 6. Women Entrepreneurs and Local Politics Minglu Chen 7. The Professional Middle Classes: Management and Politics Ivan Cucco 8. Lawyers, Doctors and Professors Jingqing Yang 9. Small Town Entrepreneurs Beatriz Carrillo 10. National Minority Entrepreneurs and Activists Tim Oakes and Wu Xiaoping Part 4: Life Styles 11. ’What’s in a High-Class Neighbourhood?” Housing and Ethical Self-Government for Beijing’s New Rich Luigi Tomba 12. Cultural Constructions Stephanie Helmyrk Donald 13. New Symbolic Wealth: The Best Things Come in Small Boxes Carolyn Cartier 14. The Maid’s Story: New Rich Family Life Styles Sun Wanning 15. Women in Public Louise Edwards 16. For Love or Money? Commercial Sex and the New Rich in Reform-Era China Elaine Jeffreys
A collection of essays on architecture of modern China, arranged chronologically covering a period from 1729 to 2008, focusing mainly on the 20th century. The distinctive feature of this book is a blending of ‘critical’ and ‘historical’ research, taking a long-range perspective transcending the current scene and the Maoist period. Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Beijing, 1729: Linear Perspective into China 2. Nanjing 1929-30s: Building a Nation State 3. Beijing 1949-59: State, Space, Revolution 4. From National Narratives to Autonomous Practice 5. Twenty Plateaus 6. 1996-2001: Criticality in between China and the West 7. Beijing, 2008: Visions and Concerns 8. Space for the People October 2008: 234x156: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-45780-4: £85.00 Pb: 978-0-415-45781-1: £27.50 U
Cinema Taiwan Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts Edited by Darrell William Davis, University of New South Wales, Australia and Ru-shou Robert Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the auterist mode, the nation-state argument and vestiges of the New Cinema. Selected Contents: Preface: Screening Contemporary Taiwan Cinema. Introduction: Cinema Taiwan, a Civilizing Mission? Part 1: Politics 1. The Vision of Taiwan New Documentary 2. Haunted Realism: Postcoloniality and the Cinema of Chang Tso-chi 3. The Impossible Task of Taipei Films 4. Taiwan in Mainland Chinese Cinema 5. Festivals, Criticism and International Reputation of Taiwan New Cinema Part 2: Popularity 6. The Unbearable Lightness of Globalization: On the Transnational Flight of Wuxia Film 7. ’This Isn’t Real!’ Spatialized Narration and (In)Visible Special Effects in Double Vision 8. Morning in the New Metropolis: Taipei and the Globalization of City Film 9. Taiwan (Trans)National Cinema, or, The Far-Flung Adventures of a Taiwanese Tomboy 10. Trendy in Taiwan: Problems of Popularity in the Island’s Cinema Part 3: State of Arts 11. King Hu: Experimental, Narrative Filmmaker 12. ’I thought of the times we were in front of the flowers’: Analyzing the Opening Credits of Goodbye Dragon Inn 13. ’This Time He Moves!’: The Deeper Significance of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Radical Break in Good Men, Good Women 14. The Road Home: Stylistic Renovations of Chinese Mandarin Classics 2007: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-41257-5: £85.00 Pb: 978-0-415-41258-2: £22.99 eBook: 978-0-203-96439-2
June 2008: 234x156: 304pp Hb: 978-0-415-45564-0: £85.00 Pb: 978-0-415-45565-7: £20.99 eBook: 978-0-203-93117-2
Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series This volume presents contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, and documents in rich ethnographic detail its historical complexity and regional diversity. The collection’s analytical emphasis is on the modern ’metamorphoses’ of kinship in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, but the essays also offer ample historical documentation and comparison. Selected Contents: Introduction: On Chinese Kinship and Relatedness Part 1: Space and Place 1. ‘Families We Create’: Women’s Kinship in Rural China as Spatialized Practice 2. Living a Single Life. The Plight and Adaptations of the Bachelors in Yishala 3. The Ties That Bind: Female Homosocial Bonds and the Production of Intimacy in Rural China Part 2: Practice and Representation 4. The Stove-Family. On Kinship and Relatedness in Rural South China 5. Actually Existing Chinese Matriarchy 6. Gendered Value and The Kinship Production of Values: Taiwan and China Compared 7. Neighbours, Friends, and Grandparents: Understanding Relatedness in Urban China Part 3: State and History 8. Becoming a Mother in Late Imperial China: Social and Medical Technologies 9. Education and the Governance of Child-Centred Relatedness 10. Kinship and History: Disruption and Repair September 2008: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-45697-5: £75.00
China’s Emerging Cities The Making of New Urbanism Edited by Fulong Wu, Cardiff University, UK Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series With urbanism becoming the key driver of socioeconomic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material and covers key topics on Chinese urban development. Selected Contents: Part 1: Cities as Emerging Institutions 1. Beyond Gradualism: China’s Urban Revolution and Emerging Cities 2. Land Property Rights Regime in China: A Comparative Study of Suzhou and Dongguan 3. Public-Private Partnership in the Urban Water Sector of Shanghai 4. The Dialectics of Urban Planning in China Part 2: Transitioning Economic and Social Spheres 5. Hong Kong and Taiwan Investment in Dongguan: Divergent Trajectories and Impacts 6. Urban Labor Market Changes and Social Protection for Urban Informal Workers: Challenges for China and India 7. Ageing Urban Society: Discourse and Policy 8. Transition to Homeownership: Implications for Wealth Redistribution Part 3: Rebuilding Residential Space 9. Residential Redevelopment and Social Impacts in Beijing 10. Neighborhood Changes and Residential Differentiation in Shanghai 11. Large Urban Redevelopment Projects and Socio-Spatial Stratification in Shanghai Part 4: Emerging Leisure, Retailing and Consumption Practices 12. Spaces of Leisure: Gated Golf Communities in China 13. A Tale of Two Cities: Restructuring of Retail Capital and Production of New Consumption Spaces in Beijing and Shanghai 14. When Local Meets Global: Residential Differentiation, Global Connections and Consumption in Shanghai 2007: 234x156: 336pp Hb: 978-0-415-41617-7: £85.00
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