Many scholars argue that the persistence of son preference in China is driven by greater
anticipated old‐age support from sons than from daughters and the absence of formal …

This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making
sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map and a method for understanding the …

Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China—political, cultural, and economic—
has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social …

Has China become just another capitalist country in a socialist cloak? Will the Chinese
Communist Party's rule survive the next ten years of modernization and globalization? Frank …

This article discusses the visions and practices of DIY (do-it-yourself) maker culture in China.
It analyses how the ideals held by DIY makers, such as openness, peer production, and …

Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this
book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China's commodity housing …

This article discusses the rhetoric and practices of China's middle-class “community
building”(shequ jianshe, as the campaign to reorganize urban residential communities that …

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that
increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume investigates that trend, drawing on …

Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public
health care system has changed during the past two decades and of the meaning of those …

Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of migrant women who, while
in their teens, moved from rural towns to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners …