<p><span>The People’s Republic of China has experienced numerous challenges and undergone tremendous structural changes over the past four decades. The party-state now faces a fundamental tension in its pursuit of social stability and regime durability. Repressive state strategies enable the Chinese
Evolutionary governance in China : state-society relations under authoritarianism
✍ Scribed by Sijian Xu (editor)
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 417
- Series
- Harvard contemporary China series
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- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Evolutionary Governance in China: State–Society Relations under Authoritarianism
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Evolutionary Governance in China: State–Society Interactions under Authoritarianism
2. Measuring State–Society Interactions in China’s Evolutionary Governance: Examining Extant Literature (2005–2015)
PART II: COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE
3. Participation under Authoritarianism? Legislative Impact of Homeowner Activism in Beijing
4. Cellularized Civil Society: Public Participation in Community Governance
5. Contention and Inclusion of a Grassroots Community: Conflict over Rural Land Requisition in Nanhai, Guangdong
PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH GOVERNANCE
6. AIDS Governance in China: Transitional Tripartite Interaction among State, Societal, and International Actors
7. Not a Zero-Sum Game: State–Society Interaction and Anti-Incinerator Campaigns in China
PART IV: ECONOMIC AND LABOR GOVERNANCE
8. Decentralized and Differential Labor Policy Governance: The Implementation of China’s Labor
Contract Law in the Pearl River Delta
9. Governing Foreign Capitalists in the Name of Workers: Policy Shifts Following Worker Suicides at Foxconn
10. Unintended Consequences of Enhanced Labor Legislation in Reform-Era China
PART V: SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS GOVERNANCE
11. State–Society Interactions in the Campaign against Domestic Violence in China
12. Local Strategies of Engaging the State: The Cultural Legitimation and Heritagization of Mazu Belief
13. Governing an “Undesirable” Religion: Shifting Christian Church–State Interactions in Post-Mao China
Epilogue: China’s (R)evolutionary Governance
and the COVID-19 Crisis
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