Social Issues in China
Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment
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Social Issues in China:
Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment
Zhidong Hao and Sheying Chen, editors
One of the great ironies of world politics belongs to China. Having carried out a revolution to reform societal ills, it has ended up with broadly the same problems as the West: gender inequities, ethnic conflict, labor disputes, and environmental decline.
Now, in tandem with its recent economic development, movements toward social justice are poised to further transform the nation.
Social Issues in China offers a fascinating multilayered study of wide-scale problems and the actors and activists involved in their possible solutions. Divided equally among gender, labor, ethnicity, and the environment (with some matters compounded by questions of age and geography), chapters illuminate tensions between public policy--some recent, others centuries old--and public participation by intellectuals and various disadvantaged groups. A constant throughout these pages is the potential for change in a nation's political, social, and cultural institutions, toward a more responsive society, a more responsible government, and improved quality of life for its people. Among the featured concerns:
- Rural Chinese women's political participation: problems and prospects
- Domestic labor, gendered intergenerational contracts, and shared elder care in rural South China
- Interpreting the ethnicization of social conflict in China
- Language, learning, and identity: problematizing education in Tibet
- Trade union membership and workplace relations
- The struggle for survival and impact: case studies of NGOs involved in gender, ethnicity, labor, and environmental issues
A volume with global implications, Social Issues inChina gives sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, educators, and public policymakers a profound lens for understanding social problems and social change processes--in its title country, and in general.
Since 1978, the opening up and reform in China has brought tremendous economic and social changes. While China’s economic progress has been commendable, the social problems that go with economic changes have raised serious concerns. Some of those concerns are related to gender, ethnic, labor, and environmental issues. This book is about what has happened in these arenas in China since the opening up and reform in 1978. The study of gender, ethnicity, labor, and environment touches on some of the fundamental problems of modernization, especially the development of individuals and groups. So even though gender, ethnicity, labor, and environment seem to be separate issues, they are in fact related in some fundamental ways. That’s what this book will explore as well. To understand is one thing and to do is another. This book also incorporates studies of NGO practices to see how NGOs have helped in transforming gender, ethnic, labor, and environment interplay. Our study of NGOs in helping improve such interplay sheds light on how specifically civil society can prod the state to transform social relations for the better. This book is an attempt to assess the changes, both positive and negative, in gender, ethnic, ethnic, and environmental relations in China especially in the past 30 years of opening up and reform, especially regarding national identity formation.
Explores interplay between gender, ethnicity, class, and the environment in contemporary China Examines how NGOs attempt to mediate in social conflicts Takes a comprehensive look at China's fundamental yet pressing social problems?
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