Reconstructing Twentieth-Century China

State Control, Civil Society, and National Identity

Edited by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and David Strand

A Clarendon Press Publication

Reconstructing Twentieth-Century China

State Control, Civil Society, and National Identity

Edited by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and David Strand

A Clarendon Press Publication

Description

This book examines the important theme of reform and reconstruction in twentieth century China, focusing particularly on the Deng era. Chapters are organized around three crucial issues: (i) the extent and limits of state control over economic, social, and cultural life; (ii) prospects for the development of a civil society separate from state control;and (iii) the struggle to define a Chinese national identity which takes China's ethnic diversity into consideration.

Reconstructing Twentieth-Century China

State Control, Civil Society, and National Identity

Edited by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and David Strand

A Clarendon Press Publication

Studies on Contemporary China

1. Introduction, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and David Strand
Part I: State Control
2. Calling the Chinese People to Order: Sun Yat-Sen's Rhetoric of Development, David Strand
3. The Essence of Contemporary Chinese Bureaucracy: Socialism, Modernization, and Political Culture, Ryosei Kokubun
4. Control as Care: Interaction between Urban Women and Birth Planning Workers, Cecilia Milwertz
5. Ownership and Community Interest in China's Rural Enterprises, Susan Young
Part II: Civil Society
6. Reconstructing Society: Liang Shuming and the Rural Construction Movement in Shandong, Stig Thøgersen
7. Bases for Civil Society in Reform China, Thomas Gold
8. State and Society in Hainan: Liao Xun's Ideas on `Small Government, Big Society', Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
9. Is a Participant Culture Emerging in China?, Torstein Hjellum
Part III: National Identity
10. Party Policy and `National Culture': Towards a State-directed Cultural Nationalism in China?, David Strand
11. Fostering `Love of Learning': Naxi Responses to Ethnic Images in Chinese State Education, Mette Halskov Hansen
12. China Deconstructs? The Future of the Chinese Empire-State in a Historical Perspective, Harald Bøckman
Index