China in and beyond the headlines / edited by Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen.

Other author Weston, Timothy B., 1964-
Other author Jensen, Lionel M.
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012.
Descriptionxxv, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : China, the United States and convulsive cooperation / Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston -- Jousting with monsters : journalists in a rapidly changing China / David Bandurski -- Youth culture in China : idols, sex, and the Internet / Jonathan S. Noble -- Dismantling the socialist welfare state : the rise of civil society in China / Jessica C. Teets -- Mutually assured destruction or dependence? : US and Chinese perspectives on China's military development / Andrew S. Erickson -- China's environmental tipping point / Alex L. Wang -- China's historic urbanization : explosive and challenging / Timothy B. Weston -- The worlds of China's intellectuals / Timothy Cheek -- Why does China fear the Internet? / Susan D. Blum -- Producing exemplary consumers : tourism and leisure culture in China's nation-building project / Travis Klingberg & Tim Oakes -- Professionals and populists : the paradoxes of China's legal reforms / Benjamin L. Liebman -- The decriminalization and depathologization of homosexuality in China / Wenqing Kang -- An evolution of Chinese authoritarianism : lessons from the "Arab Spring" / Orion Lewis -- Culture industry, power and the spectacle of China's "Confucius institutes" / Lionel M. Jensen -- Tensions and violence in China's minority regions / Katherine Palmer Kaup -- An unharmonious society : foreign reporting in China / Gady Epstein -- Afterword : what future for human rights dialogues? / John Kamm.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011030051
ISBN9781442209046 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1442209046 (cloth : alk. paper)
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