| Knowing China: A Twenty-First Century Guide Contributor(s): Pieke, Frank N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107132746 ISBN-13: 9781107132740 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Asian - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 951.06 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.08" W x 9.4" (1.02 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, desires, or fears. Each chapter starts with a key question about China, showing that such questions and assumptions are often based on a misunderstanding or misconstruction of what China is today. Pieke explores twenty-first-century China as a unique kind of neo-socialist society, combining features of state socialism, neoliberal governance, capitalism and rapid globalization. Understanding this society not only helps us to know China better, but takes us beyond the old dichotomies of West versus East, developed versus developing, tradition versus modernity, democracy versus dictatorship, and capitalism versus socialism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pieke, Frank N.: - Frank Pieke studied cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and the University of California, Berkeley. After lectureships at Universiteit Leiden and the University of Oxford, he was appointed Chair Professor in Modern China Studies at Universiteit Leiden in 2010. Pieke's current research revolves around foreign migration to China and the changing role of the Chinese Communist Party. His books include The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today's China (2009) and Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe (2004). |
