Current accounts of China's global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely
neglecting the cultivation of China's people. Susan Greenhalgh, one of the foremost …

China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of
its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have …

In March 2002, tens of thousands of middle-aged former oil industry employees in the city of
Daqing, 350 miles north-east of Beijing in Heilongjiang Province, began a massive protest …

Political legitimacy in China over the past three decades has been built around fast
economic growth, which in turn has relied on a cheap and willing young labor force. An …

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 More than three decades of economic growth
have led to significant social change in the Peoples Republic of China. This timely book …

On 28 April 2011, China's state statistics bureau released its first report on the country's
2010 population census. The report states that the total population of mainland China …

China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding
social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social …

China's one‐child‐per‐couple policy represents an extraordinary attempt to engineer
national wealth, power, and global standing by drastically braking population growth …

Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People's Republic of China have resulted in the
emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions …

This paper considers the emergence in China from the 1890s onwards of several distinct but
interrelated interpretations of citizen and citizenship. It shows how these differing …