New Mentalities of Government in China
China continues to transform apace, flowing from the forces of deregulation, privatization, and globalization unleashed by economic reforms which began in late 1978. The dramatic scope of economic change in China is often counterposed to the apparent lack of political change as demonstrated by continued Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule. However, the ongoing dominance of the CCP belies the fact that much has also changed in relation to practices of government, including how authorities and citizens interact in the management of daily life.
New Mentalities of Government in China examines how the privatization and professionalization of public service provision is transforming the nature of government and everyday life in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). The book addresses key theoretical questions on the nature of government in China and documents the emergence of a range of new mentalities of government in China. Its chapters focus on areas such as clinical trials, conceptualizing government, consumer activity, elite philanthropy, lifestyle and beauty advice, public health, social work, volunteering, and urban and rural planning.
Offering a topical examination of shifting modes of governance in contemporary China, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, politics, and sociology.
David Bray is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Social Space and Governance in Urban China: The Danwei System from Origins to Reform (2005).
Elaine Jeffreys is Associate Professor, School of International Studies, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her recent publications include Prostitution Scandals in China: Policing, Media and Society (Routledge, 2012).
Routledge Studies on China in Transition
Series Editor: David S.G. Goodman
1 The Democratisation of China
Baogang He
2 Beyond Beijing
Dali Yang
3 Chinas Enterprise Reform
Changing state/society relations after Mao
You Ji
4 Industrial Change in China
Economic restructuring and conflicting interests
Kate Hannan
5 The Entrepreneurial State in China
Real estate and commerce departments in reform era Tianjin
Jane Duckett
6 Tourism and Modernity in China
Tim Oakes
7 Cities in Post Mao China
Recipes for economic development in the reform era
Jae Ho Chung
8 Chinas Spatial Economic Development
Regional transformation in the Lower Yangzi Delta
Andrew M. Marton
9 Regional Development in China
States, globalization and inequality
Yehua Dennis Wei
10 Grassroots Charisma
Four local leaders in China
Stephan Feuchtwang and Wang Mingming
11 The Chinese Legal System
Globalization and local legal culture
Pitman B. Potter
12 Transforming Rural China
How local institutions shape property rights in China
Chi- Jou Jay Chen
13 Negotiating Ethnicity in China
Citizenship as a response to the state
Chih- yu Shih
14 Manager Empowerment in China
Political implications of rural industrialisation in the reform era
Ray Yep
15 Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China
The search for national identity under reform
Yingjie Guo
16 Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China
Xiaowei Zang
17 Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market
Edward Gu and Merle Goldman
18 China, Sex and Prostitution
Elaine Jeffreys
19 The Development of Chinas Stockmarket, 19842002
Equity politics and market institutions
Stephen Green
20 Chinas Rational Entrepreneurs
The development of the new private business sector
Barbara Krug
21 Chinas Scientific Elite
Cong Cao
22 Locating China
Jing Wang
23 State and Laid- Off Workers in Reform China
The silence and collective action of the retrenched
Yongshun Cai
24 Translocal China
Linkages, identities and the reimagining of space
Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein
25 International Aid and Chinas Environment
Taming the yellow dragon
Katherine Morton
26 Sex and Sexuality in China
Edited by Elaine Jeffreys
27 Chinas Reforms and International Political Economy
Edited by David Zweig and Chen Zhimin
28 Ethnicity and Urban Life in China
A comparative study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese
Xiaowei Zang
29 Chinas Urban Space
Development under market socialism
T.G. McGee, George C.S. Lin, Mark Y.L. Wang,Andrew M. Marton and Jiaping Wu
30 Chinas Embedded Activism
Opportunities and constraints of a social movement
Edited by Richard Louis Edmonds and Peter Ho
31 Marketization and Democracy in China
Jianjun Zhang
32 The Chinese State in Transition
Processes and contests in local China
Edited by Linda Chelan Li
33 Chinas Governmentalities
Governing change, changing government
Edited by Elaine Jeffreys
34 Chinas Cotton Industry
Economic transformation and state capacity
Bjrn Alpermann
35 Serious Crime in China
Policing and politics
Susan Trevaskes
36 The Chinese States Retreat from Health
Policy and the politics of retrenchment
Jane Duckett
37 Chinas Changing Welfare Mix
Local perspectives
Edited by Beatriz Carrillo and Jane Duckett
38 Small Town China
Rural labour and social inclusion
Beatriz Carrillo
39 Tiger Girls
Women and enterprise in the Peoples Republic of China
Minglu Chen
40 Chinas Thought Management
Edited by Anne-Marie Brady
41 Rural Tax Reform in China
Policy processes and institutional change
Linda Chelan Li
42 Young Chinese in Urban China
Alex Cockain
43 Prostitution Scandals in China
Policing, media and society
Elaine Jeffreys
44 Unequal China
The political economy and cultural politics of inequality
Edited by Wanning Sun and Yingjie Guo
45 Elites and Governance in China
Edited by Xiaowei Zang and Chien- Wen Kou
46 Choosing Chinas Leaders
Edited by Chien-Wen Kou and Xiaowei Zang
47 Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China
New socialist countryside
Anna L. Ahlers
48 NGO Governance and Management in China
Edited by Reza Hasmath and Jennifer Y.J. Hsu
49 Dams, Migration and Authoritarianism in China
The local state in Yunnan
Sabrina Habich
50 New Mentalities of Government in China
Edited by David Bray andElaine Jeffreys
