State and Society in 21st Century China (Asia's Transformations) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of State and Society in 21st Century China (Asia's Transformations) Saturday, August 22 2009.

• Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st-century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic. Subjects covered include: * the legitimacy of the Communist Party; * state-society relations; * ethnic and religious resistance; * rural and urban contention; * nationalism; * popular and youth culture; * prospects for democracy. Broad in sweep and rich in empirical detail, this timely volume will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary China, as well as those interested in the dynamics of political and social change.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of State and Society in 21st Century China (Asia's Transformations) Friday, July 17 2009.

• At the turn of the 21st century, the strenuous conditions of social existence in China offered up plenty of cause for popular protest.