Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China /

Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China / / ed. by Elizabeth J. Perry, Merle Goldman.

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. After slow but steady moves toward a new conception of citizenship...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Dickson, Bruce,
Dowdle, Michael William,
Goldman, Merle,
Goodman, Bryna,
Judge, Joan,
O’Brien, Kevin J,
Perry, Elizabeth J .,
Perry, Elizabeth J,
Polumbaum, Judy,
Rigger, Shelley,
Shih, Chih-Yu,
Strand, David,
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.,
Woo, Margaret Y. K.,
Xingzhong, Yu,
HerausgeberIn:
Goldman, Merle,
Perry, Elizabeth J.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2002
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Harvard Contemporary China Series ; 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Political Citizenship in Modern China
  • I Imperial and Republican China I Imperial and Republican China
  • 1 Citizens or Mothers of Citizens? Gender and the Meaning of Modern Chinese Citizenship
  • 2 Citizens in the Audience and at the Podium
  • 3 Democratic Calisthenics: The Culture of Urban Associations in the New Republic
  • 4 Questioning the Modernity of the Model Settlement: Citizenship and Exclusion in Old Shanghai
  • 5 From Paris to the Paris of the East— and Back: Workers as Citizens in Modern Shanghai
  • II The People’s Republic of China
  • 6 The Reassertion of Political Citizenship in the Post-Mao Era: The Democracy Wall Movement
  • 7 Personality, Biography, and History: How Hu Jiwei Strayed from the Party Path on the Road to Good Citizenship
  • 8 Villagers, Elections, and Citizenship
  • 9 Ethnic Economy of Citizenship in China: Four Approaches to Identity Formation
  • 10 Do Good Businessmen Make Good Citizens? An Emerging Collective Identity Among China’s Private Entrepreneurs
  • 11 Citizenship, Ideology, and the PRC Constitution
  • 12 Law and the Gendered Citizen
  • 13 Constructing Citizenship: The NPC as Catalyst for Political Participation
  • III Taiwan
  • 14 Nationalism versus Citizenship in the Republic of China on Taiwan
  • Notes
  • Contributors

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