Course Outline: INTRODUCTION

            SECTION I

1. Chinese  Society in Historical Perspective

        Social Transformations in post-Mao China: Issues and Themes
  New Cultural Trends

            SECTION II

1. Social Consequences of Economic Reforms

Social stratification and Rise of New Middle Class
Urbanization and the New Chinese Cities
Transformation of Rural China
Migration

SECTION III

1. Changes  in Social institutions and Identities

Hukou
Danwei
Family
Guanxi

            SECTION IV

1. Women and Society in China

Women in Traditional China
Revolution and Women
Women and post- socialism
Chinese Feminisms

SECTION V

1. Civil Society in China

Decline of Political Controls
Emergence of Civil Society
Debates and Interpretations

Section VI

1. State – Society Contentions

Social Groups and New Protest Movements in China
Workers
Farmers
Women

SECTION VII

1. Globalization and Cultural Trends in China

Market and Chinese Modernity
Media, Urban Youth and Popular Culture
Return of Traditions and Confucianism

Reading List:

Section I

Deborah Davis and Ezra Vogel (eds.), Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Graham Young (ed.), China: Dilemmas of Modernization, London: Croomhelm, 1985

Elizabeth Perry and Mark Selden (eds.), Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, New York: Routledge, 2000.

David S.G.Goodman and Beverly Hooper (eds.), China’s Quiet Revolution: New Interactions between State and Society, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

A.G.Rosenbaum (ed.), State and Society in China: The Consequences of Reform, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.

F. Christiansen and Shirin Rai, Chinese Politics and Society: An Introduction, London: Prentice Hall Harvester, 1996.

Barnett A. Doak, Modernizing China: post-Mao reform and Development, Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1986.

Martin Whyte, ‘State and Society in the Mao Era’, Kenneth Lieberthal and Roderick MacFarquhar (eds.), Perspectives on Modern China, Armonk: NY, M.E.Sharpe, 1991.

B. Hooper, ‘Women, Consumerism and the State in post- Mao China’, Asian studies Review, 17(3), 1994.

C.K.Gilmartin et al. (eds.) Engendering China: Women, Culture and the State, Cambridge, M.A., Harvard University Press, 1994. 

Section II

Dorothy Solinger, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: peasants, Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.   

Fei-Ling Wang, Organizing through Division and Exclusion; China’s Hukou System, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Kam Wing Chan and Li Zhang, ‘The Hukou System and Rural-Urban Migration: Process and Change’, The China Quarterly, No.160, 1999.

Kam Wing Chan and Xueqiang Xu, ‘Urban Population Growth and Urbanization in China since 1949: Reconstructing a Baseline’, The China Quarterly, No.104, 1985

Lincoln H. Day and Ma Xia (eds.), Migration and Urbanization in China, Armonk, NY & London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

T. Scharping (ed.), Floating Population and Migration in China: The Impact of Economic Reforms, Hamburg: Instit Fur Asienkunde, 1997.

Pei Lin Li, Qiang Li and Liping Sun, Social Stratification in China’s Today, Beijing: Social Sciences Documentation Publishing House, 2004.

Azizur Rahman Khan and Carl Riskin, Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization, Oxford: OUP, 2001.

R. Robinson and D.S.G. Goodman (eds.), The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonald’s and Middle Class Revolution, London and New York: Routledge, 1996.

S.H.Whiting, Power and Wealth in Rural China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Section III

Hein Mallee, ‘China Household Registration System Under Reform’, Development and Change, No.26, 1995.

David Bray, Social Space and Governance in China: the Danwei system from origins to reform, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Tiejun Cheng and Mark Selden, ‘The Origins and Social Consequences of China’s Hukou System’, The China Quarterly, No. 139, 1994.

Lu Xiaobo and Elizabeth Perry (eds.), Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective, Armonk, NY: M.E.Sharpe, 1997.

Deborah Davis and Steven Harrell, Chinese Families in the post-Mao Era, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Myron Cohen, ‘Family Management and Family Division in Contemporary Rural China’, The China Quarterly, No. 130, 1992.

Yanjie Bian, ‘Guanxi and the Allocation of Urban jobs in China’, The China Quarterly, No.140, December 1994.

Mayfair Young Mei Hui, Gifts, Favours and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China, Ithaca &London: Cornell University Press, 1994.

L. Dittmer and Lu Xiaobo, ‘Personal Politics in the Chinese Danwei under Reform’, Asian Survey, 36(3), 1996.

Section IV

Ellen Judd, Gender and Power in Rural North China, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Lisa Rofel, Other Modernities: Gendered   Yearnings in China After Socialism, Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.

Elizabeth Croll, Changing Identities of Chinese Women: Rhetoric, Experience and Self Perception in 20^th Century China, London: Hong Kong University Press, 1995.          

Section V

T. Brook and B.M.Frolic (eds.), Civil Society in China, Armonk, NY: M.E.Sharpe, 1997.

H.B.Chamberlain, ‘Civil Society with Chinese Characteristics’, The China Journal, No.39, 1998.

Shu-Yu Ma, ‘The Chinese Discourse on civil society’, The China Quarterly, No. 137, 1994.

Gordon White, J. Howell and Shang Xiaoyuan, In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Section VI

Elizabeth Perry and Jeffrey Wasserstrom (eds.), Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China, Boulder Co: Westview Press, 1991.

Anita Chan, ‘Revolution or Corporatism? Workers and Trade Unions in post-Mao China’, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No.29, Jan. 1993.

Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen, State and Society in 21^st Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimation, New York and London: Routledge Curzon, 2004.  

Section VII

Liu Kang, Globalization and Cultural Trends in China, USA; University of Hawai’i Press, 2004.

Jianying Zha, China Pop: How soap Operas, Tabloids and Bestsellers are Transforming a Culture, New York: New press, 1995.

K. Dean, Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults in Southeast China, Princeton, NJ: Princeton university Press, 1993.

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