Social Relations and Political Development in China
As China enters its proclaimed New Era under President Xi Jinping, this book examines changes and continuity in social relations and political development, investigating new developments against the backdrop of continuations of long-term trends and previous policies.
What has remained outside many scholarly discussions is a larger backdrop of continuity, into which the policies of Xi Jinpings administration are inserted to further shape social, economic and political trajectories in contemporary China. Presented as a volume of methodologically diverse studies exploring some of the key aspects of social and political development in contemporary China, its authors examine the structural factors that continue to exert influence on Chinas trajectory in the New Era, as before at the deeper and subtler levels. This is the first publication of its kind to focus on how continuity and change interplay under Xi; it enables readers to appreciate both genuine novelties and the enduring, long-term trends, as well as to estimate future trends in the proclaimed New Era and beyond.
Social Relations and Political Development in China will be of significant interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies, political science and sociology.
Zhengxu Wang is Shanghai 1000-Talent Distinguished Professor at the Department of Politics at Fudan University. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan and has served in academic posts at the National University of Singapore and the University of Nottingham.
Dragan Pavlievi is an Associate Professor in China Studies at Xian JiaotongLiverpool University, China. His research spans both Chinas domestic politics and foreign relations.
Routledge Studies on China in Transition
Series Editor: David S. G. Goodman
Economic Development in Chinas Northwest
Entrepreneurship and Identity along Chinas Multi-Ethnic Borderlands
Joshua Bird
Governing HIV in China
Commercial Sex, Homosexuality and Rural-to-Urban Migration
Elaine Jeffreys and SU Gang
Chinas Housing Middle Class
Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities
Beibei Tang
Chinas Architecture in a Globalizing World
Between Socialism and the Market
Jiawen Han
Local Elites in Post-Mao China
Yingjie Guo
Public Participation and State Building in China
Case Studies from Zhejiang
Dragan Pavlievi
Social Relations and Political Development in China
Change and Continuity in the New Era
Edited by Zhengxu Wang and Dragan Pavlievi
Suzhou in Transition
Paul Cheung and Beibei Tang
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Social Relations and Political Development in China
Change and Continuity in the New Era
Edited by Zhengxu Wang and Dragan Pavlievi
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Names: Pavlievi, Dragan, author. | Wang, Zhengxu, author. | Taylor & Francis.
Title: Social relations and political development in China : change and continuity in the New Era / Dragan Pavlievi, Zhengxu Wang.
Description: First Edition. | New York : Taylor & Francis, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020020113 | ISBN 9780367458140 (Hardback) | ISBN 9781000202243 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781000202366 (ePub) | ISBN 9781000202304 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Social changeChina. | ChinaSocial policy21st century. | ChinaPolitics and government21st century. | Political sociologyChina.
Classification: LCC HN733.5 .P38 2020 | DDC 306.0951dc23
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Sirma Altun is a PhD student at the Department of Political Economy, the University of Sydney. Her research looks at the production of urban space in Hong Kong and Taipei, two global cities in Asia, from spatial political economy perspective.
Sarah S. Bolasevich received her first masters degree from Harvard University in 2015, where she studied ethics, cultural values and religious beliefs, drawing from her background in psychology. She gained a second masters degree from Fudan University in 2018, with a focus on diplomacy, political psychology, Chinese education policies and identity formation/values.
Ruairidh J. Brown teaches International Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Prior to this, he received his PhD from the University of St Andrews Scotland, graduating in June 2017. His key research interests are Theories of Political Obligation, State Legitimacy and StateSociety relations.
Zhiting Chen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southeast University, China. She gained her PhD from the University of Birmingham. Her research interests fall within the areas of political economy, economic governance, industrial policy and state-owned enterprises reform in China.
Yik Chan Chin is Assistant Professor at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool Universitys School of Film and TV Arts. Prior to this, she worked in the University of Nottingham and University of Oxfords School of Law as a research fellow in media regulation and law. Her areas of research include media and communication policy, governance and law with a special focus on China. Currently, she is working on the projects of Internet governance, big Data and AI Ethics in the Chinese Context.
Hanbing Cui is a Lecturer in the School of Marxism at Fudan University. She graduated from Fudan Law School with a PhD degree in Civil Law, and was also a Fulbright joint PhD student (20152016) at Harvard Law School. She did postdoctoral research work during 20172018 in the School of Politics at Fudan University. Her key research interests are in socialist rule of law, Chinese civil codification and Chinese politics.
