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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen Klappentext In the third volume of this popular series, leading experts provide fascinating and unexpected insights into critical issues in today's China. They address such key topics as civil society, consumerism, environmental adversity, ethnic tension, the Internet, legal reform, new media and social networking, nationalist tourism, sex, and popular culture, as well the costs of urban gigantism, to portray the complexity of life in contemporary China-and how, increasingly, it speaks to the everyday experience of Americans. Zusammenfassung In the third volume of this popular series! leading experts provide fascinating and unexpected insights into critical issues in today's China. They address such key topics as civil society! consumerism! environmental adversity! ethnic tension! the Internet! legal reform! new m... Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: China, the United States, and Convulsive Cooperation Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. WestonPart I: In the HeadlinesChapter 1: Jousting with Monsters: Journalists in a Rapidly Changing China David BandurskiChapter 2: Youth Culture in China: Idols, Sex, and the Internet Jonathan S. NobleChapter 3: Dismantling the Socialist Welfare State: The Rise of Civil Society in China Jessica C. TeetsChapter 4: Mutually Assured Destruction or Dependence? U.S. and Chinese Perspectives on China's Military Development Andrew S. EricksonChapter 5: China's Environmental Tipping Point Alex L. WangChapter 6: China's Historic Urbanization: Explosive and Challenging Timothy B. WestonChapter 7: The Worlds of China's Intellectuals Timothy CheekChapter 8: Why Does China Fear the Internet? Susan D. BlumPart II: Beyond the HeadlinesChapter 9: Producing Exemplary Consumers: Tourism and Leisure Culture in China's Nation-Building Project Travis Klingberg and Tim OakesChapter 10: Professionals and Populists: The Paradoxes of China's Legal Reforms Benjamin L. LiebmanChapter 11: The Decriminalization and Depathologization of Homosexuality in China Wenqing KangChapter 12: The Evolution of Chinese Authoritarianism: Lessons from the "Arab Spring" Orion A. LewisChapter 13: Culture Industry, Power, and the Spectacle of China's "Confucius Institutes" Lionel M. JensenChapter 14: Tensions and Violence in China's Minority Regions Katherine Palmer KaupChapter 15: An Unharmonious Society: Foreign Reporting in China Gady EpsteinAfterword: What Future for Human Rights Dialogues? John Kamm...
