China beyond the Headlines: : Geremie R. Barmé: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

China beyond the Headlines

Textbook

China beyond the Headlines

Textbook

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This unique book takes the reader Obeyond the headlinesO to explore a China few Westerners have seen. The authors argue that the great gap between what specialists understand and the general public believes has led to distorted and potentially dangerous misunderstandings of China. Seeking to bridge that gap, a group of prominent scholars and activists challenge readers to move past the usual images of China presented by the media and to think about the common problems shared by China and the United States. In a morally engaged spirit, they explore such issues as environmental degradation, unemployment, growing inequality, ethnicity, human rights, corruption, and changing images of women to bring to life the fabric of contemporary Chinese life and how it twines around the political consciousness of Americans.

Chapter 1 ChapterForewordGeremie Barmé
Chapter 2 Chronology
Chapter 3 Table of Equivalents and Measures
Chapter 4 Foreword: Between the Linesand beyond the Text
Chapter 5 Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 6 Map: The World and China
Chapter 7 Map: China
Chapter 8 Introduction: LEAD STORY-Favored Nations, Intertwined Fates
Part 9 I: Above the Fold
Chapter 10 1 Big Bad China and the Good Chinese: An American Fairy Tale
Chapter 11 2 Everyone's a Player, but the Nation's a Loser: Corruption in Contemporary China
Chapter 12 3 China's Many Faces: Ethnic, Cultural, and Religious Pluralism
Chapter 13 4 Promoting Human Rights in China: An Activist's Perspective
Chapter 14 5 China's Road to a Democratic Society: Perils and Prospects
Chapter 15 6 Beyond Exceptionalism: China's Intellectuals from Tragic Heros to U.S. Allies
Chapter 16 7 Identity and Diversity: Complexities and Contradictions of Chinese Nationalism
Chapter 17 8 China's New Economic Reforms: Replacing Iron Rice Bowls with Plastic Cups
Part 18 II: Below the Fold
Chapter 19 9 Development and Destruction: The Dimensions of China's Environmental Challenge
Chapter 20 10 Marketing Chinese Femininity: Images of the Modern Chinese Woman
Chapter 21 11 China's Labor Woes: Will the Workers Crash the Party?
Chapter 22 12 Reading Out-of-Print: Popular Culture and Protest of China's Western Frontier
Chapter 23 13 China's Market Reform: Whose Human Rights Problem?
Chapter 24 14 Border Crossings: Chinese Writing in Their World and Ours
Chapter 25 Afterword: EXTRA-Headlines Obscure the Real Story
Chapter 26 Index
Chapter 27 About the Editors and Contributors

Product details

Published	22 Mar 2000
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	392
ISBN	9798216320890
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Timothy B. Weston

Anthology Editor

Lionel M. Jensen

Contributor

Geremie R. Barmé

Contributor

Susan D. Blum

Contributor

Timothy Cheek

Contributor

Jay Dautcher

Contributor

Harriet Evans

Contributor

Howard Goldblatt

Contributor

Lionel M. Jensen

Contributor

Tong Lam

Contributor

Timothy Oakes

Contributor

Henry Rosemont Jr.

Contributor

Vaclav Smil

Contributor

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Contributor

Wei Jingsheng

Contributor

Xiao Qiang

This is a significant book that does more than bring together a number of apposite and informative papers to provide a comprehensive picture of China at the turn of the century. The volume as a whole engages with and interrogates the environments of information, political representation and policy choice behind the headlines or soundbites, popular perceptions of the 'other' and the role that scholars play in their production and interpretation. In this respect it is a self-reflexive volume of professional interest within and beyond the China field.

China Quarterly
Scholars and interested lay people who have never lived in China should read this book. So should politicians, journalists and government officials working on China.

The China Journal
An intriguing discourse that abandons outmoded paradigms and rethinks China from a variety of new perspectives within and without the Chinese polity. . . . The essays make engaging reading for those who wish to probe deeper into the social fabric of everyday life in China.

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Engaged and engaging. . . . I know of no other text that wrestles so determinedly and effectively with the jingoistic drivel that our press typically dishes out about China.

Richard Kraus, University of Oregon