China in and Beyond the Headlines

, by Weston, Timothy B.; Jensen, Lionel M.

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Copyright: 6/28/2012

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This is the third volume in a successful series of text supplements on contemporary China. The editors always do an excellent job of selecting contributors and ensuring that the chapters are on interesting, little-known topics and written in an accessible and engaging style.

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Chronology	p. ix
Table of Equivalent Measures and Administrative Units	p. xv
List of Figures and Tables	p. xvii
A Note on Romanization and Chinese Pronunciation	p. xix
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Maps	p. xxvii
Introduction: China, the United States, and Convulsive Cooperation	p. 1
In the Headlines	p. 27
Jousting with Monsters: Journalists in a Rapidly Changing China	p. 29
Youth Culture in China: Idols, Sex, and the Internet	p. 50
Dismantling the Socialist Welfare State: The Rise of Civil Society in China	p. 69
Mutually Assured Destruction or Dependence? U.S. and Chinese Perspectives on China's Military Development	p. 87
China's Environmental Tipping Point	p. 112
China's Historic Urbanization: Explosive and Challenging	p. 134
The Worlds of China's Intellectuals	p. 154
Why Does China Fear the Internet?	p. 173
Beyond the Headlines	p. 193
Producing Exemplary Consumers: Tourism and Leisure Culture in China's Nation-Building Project	p. 195
Professionals and Populists: The Paradoxes of China's Legal Reforms	p. 214
The Decriminalization and Depathologization of Homosexuality in China	p. 231
The Evolution of Chinese Authoritarianism: Lessons from the "Arab Spring"	p. 249
Culture Industry, Power, and the Spectacle of China's "Confucius Institutes"	p. 271
Tensions and Violence in China's Minority Regions	p. 300
An Unharmonious Society: Foreign Reporting in China	p. 317
Afterword: What Future for Human Rights Dialogues?	p. 332
Index	p. 343
About the Contributors	p. 351
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