Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance

This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues.Topics covered include: labour and environmental disputes rural and ethnic conflict migration legal challenges intellectual and religious dissidence opposition to family planning.The newly revised, third edition adds two new chapters on gender and the family, and the reform of the Hukou system thus providing a comprehensive text for both undergraduates and specialists in the field, encouraging the reader to challenge conventional images of contemporary Chinese society.

Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky professor of Government at Harvard University. Her most recent books include Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China; and Citizenship and the Modern Chinese State. She is currently writing a book entitled Anyuan: Ming China's Revolutionary Tradition. Mark Selden is Senior Research Associate, Cornell University, and a Coordinator of The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. His books include China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited; Chinese Village, Socialist State, {with Edward Friedman and Paul Pickowicz) The Political Economy of Chinese Development and The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150and 50 Year Perspectives (with Giovanni Arrighi and Takeshi Hamashita).