China in and beyond the HeadlinesTimothy B. Weston, Lionel M. Jensen In the third volume of this popular series, leading experts provide fascinating and unexpected insights into critical issues of culture, economy, politics, and society in today's China. This world, outside the reach of state control and either misunderstood or unreported in Western media, gains clarity and dimension from the fresh insights of a prominent group of activists, investigative journalists, lawyers, scholars, and travelers, who share a common interest in lessening the profound information gap between China and the rest of the world. In sixteen new essays, they address such key topics as civil society, consumerism, environmental adversity, ethnic tension, the Internet, legal reform, new media and social networking, nationalist tourism, sex and popular culture, as well the costs of urban gigantism to portray the complexity of life in contemporary China—and how, increasingly, it speaks to the everyday experience of Americans. Contributions by: David Bandurski, Susan D. Blum, Timothy Cheek, Gady Epstein, Andrew S. Erickson, Lionel M. Jensen, John Kamm, Wenquing Kang, Katherine Palmer Kaup, Travis Klingberg, Orion A. Lewis, Benjamin L. Liebman, Jonathan S. Noble, Tim Oakes, Jessica C. Teets, Alex L. Wang, and Timothy B. Weston. |
Contents
China the United States and Convulsive Cooperation | 1 |
PartI IN THE HEADLINES | 27 |
Journalists in a Rapidly Changing China | 29 |
Idols Sex and the Internet | 50 |
The Rise of Civil Society in China | 69 |
Ch04 Mutually Assured Destruction or Dependence? US andChinese Perspectives on ChinasMilitary Development | 87 |
Ch05 Chinas Environmental Tipping Point | 112 |
Explosive and Challenging | 134 |
Tourism and Leisure Culture inChinas NationBuilding Project | 195 |
The Paradoxes of Chinas Legal Reforms | 214 |
Ch11 The Decriminalization and Depathologization of Homosexuality in China | 231 |
Lessons from the Arab Spring | 249 |
Ch13 Culture Industry Power and the Spectacle of Chinas Confucius Institutes | 271 |
Ch14 Tensions and Violence in Chinas Minority Regions | 300 |
Foreign Reporting in China | 317 |
What Future for Human Rights Dialogues? | 332 |
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