Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China

Informationen zum Autor Merle Goldman is Professor of History! Emerita! at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research! Harvard University. Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Klappentext This collection of essays addresses the meaning and practice of political citizenship in China over the past century! raising the question of whether reform initiatives in citizenship imply movement toward increased democratization. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays addresses the meaning and practice of political citizenship in China over the past century! raising the question of whether reform initiatives in citizenship imply movement toward increased democratization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Political Citizenship in Modern China Merle Goldman and Elizabeth J. Perry I Imperial and Republican China 1. Citizens or Mothers of Citizens? Gender and the Meaning of Modern Chinese Citizenship Joan Judge 2. Citizens in the Audience and at the Podium David Strand 3. Democratic Calisthenics: The Culture of Urban Associations in the New Republic Bryna Goodman 4. Questioning the Modernity of the Model Settlement: Citizenship and Exclusion in Old Shanghai Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom 5. From Paris to the Paris of the East-and Back: Workers as Citizens in Modern Shanghai Elizabeth J. Perry II The People's Republic of China 6. The Reassertion of Political Citizenship in the Post-Mao Era: The Democracy Wall Movement Merle Goldman 7. Personality! Biography! and History: How Hu Jiwei Strayed from the Party Path on the Road to Good Citizenship Judy Polumbaum 8. Villagers! Elections! and Citizenship Kevin J. O'Brien 9. Ethnic Economy of Citizenship in China: Four Approaches to Identity Formation Chih-yu Shih 10. Do Good Businessmen Make Good Citizens? An Emerging Collective Identity Among China's Private Entrepreneurs Bruce Dickson 11. Citizenship! Ideology! and the PRC Constitution Yu Xingzhong 12. Law and the Gendered Citizen Margaret Y. K. Woo 13. Constructing Citizenship: The NPC as Catalyst for Political Participation Michael William Dowdle III Taiwan 14. Nationalism versus Citizenship in the Republic of China on Taiwan Shelley Rigger Notes Contributors ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Merle Goldman, Merle Perry Goldman
• Collaboration: Merle Goldman (Editeur), Goldman Merle (Editeur), Elizabeth J. Perry (Editeur), Perry Elizabeth J. (Editeur)
• Edition: Harvard University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.06.2002
• EAN: 9780674008434
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00843-4
• Pages: 480
• Thèmes: Harvard Contemporary China Ser; Harvard Contemporary China Series; Harvard Contemporary China
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; China, Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, HISTORY / Asia / China, Civics and citizenship