China Beyond the HeadlinesTimothy B. Weston, Lionel M. Jensen Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 - 366 pagine 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. |
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Big Bad China and the Good Chinese An American Fairy Tale | 13 |
Everyones a Player but the Nations a Loser Corruption in Contemporary China | 37 |
Chinas Many Faces Ethnic Cultural and Religious Pluralism | 69 |
Promoting Human Rights in China An Activists Perspective | 97 |
Chinas Road to a Democratic Society Perils and Prospects | 113 |
Beyond Exceptionalism Chinas Intellectuals from Tragic Heroes to US Allies | 121 |
Identity and Diversity The Complexities and Contradictions of Chinese Nationalism | 147 |
Chinas New Economic Reforms Replacing Iron Rice Bowls with Plastic Cups | 171 |
Marketing Femininity Images of the Modern Chinese Woman | 217 |
Chinas Labor Woes Will the Workers Crash the Party? | 245 |
Reading OutofPrint Popular Culture and Protest on Chinas Western Frontier | 273 |
Chinas Market Reforms Whose Human Rights Problem? | 295 |
Border Crossings Chinese Writing in Their World and Ours | 327 |
EXTRA Headlines Obscure the Full Story | 347 |
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About the Editors and Contributors | 363 |
Below the Fold | 193 |
Development and Destruction The Dimensions of Chinas Environmental Challenge | 195 |
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Pagina xvii - ... remembering distinctly that it was an acquired one. I can call to mind the first play and the first exhibition that I was taken to ; but I am not conscious of a time when china jars and saucers were introduced into my imagination. I had no repugnance then (why should I now have?) to those little, lawless, azure-tinctured grotesques, that under the notion of men and women float about, uncircumscribed by any element, in that world before perspective — a china tea-cup.