China's Rise to Power Conceptions of State Governance [Paperback]

China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of domestic discontent. This essay collection balances policy analysis with detailed investigation of escalating popular unrest to anticipate the future of Chinese governance & society.Appeal and Discontent: The Yin and Yang of China's Rise to Power; J.Tse-Hei Lee  & L.V.Nedilsky Appropriating Confucianism: Soft Power, Primordial Sentiment, and Authoritarianism; K.C.K.Cheung Harmony and Critique: Chinese Modernity, Harmonious Society, and Contemporary Chinese Feminist Perspectives; S.R.Wesoky Promoting a Harmonious Society through CCTV's Music-Entertainment Television Programming; L.Gorfinkel Harmonious Online Society: The China Model in the Information Age; S.Y.Liu The Harmonious Language of Young Hans in Urumqi, Xinjiang; E.Caprioni Invoking the Ghosts of Blagoveshchensk: Massacre, Memory, and the Post-Mao Search for Historical Identity; M.Fromm Chinese Nationalism in Harmony with European Imperialism: Historical Representation at the Macau Museum; K.Y.Law Health Care in a Harmonious Society: Crises and Challenges in Post-1978 China; K.Yip Controlling Lives and Bodies: Water and Food Security in Hong Kong; S.K.Cheung

This is an insightful and thought-provoking book, which is a useable source for students and researchers to understand Chinas rise to power. The book is essential readings for scholars and students who are interested in exploring Chinas governance perspective. (Kin Wing Chan, International Planning Studies, Vol. 19 (3-4), September, 2014)

The book's greatest strength is therefore its ability to describe the various dimensions of the current paradox of China's state governance... . China's rise to power successfully depicts the relationship between Chinese state and society in a crucial moment of transformation, which in my opinion is the book's raison d'?trlÓ5