This introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. The book draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues including women, labour, ethnic conflict and suicide. This new revised edition adds three new chapters on Falun Gong, Christianity and land struggles thus providing a comprehensive resource for both undergraduates and specialists in the field and encouraging the reader to challenge conventional images of contemporary Chinese society.
Mark Selden is a Coordinator of The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, a Senior Research Associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University, and Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology at Binghamton University. You can access The Asia-Pacific Journal here; http://japanfocus.org
A specialist on the modern and contemporary geopolitics, political economy and history of China, Japan and the Asia Pacific, his work has addressed themes of war and revolution, inequality, development, regional and world social change, and historical memory. A founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars in the 1960s, for more than thirty years he edited The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (later Critical Asian Studies). He is the editor of Book Series at Rowman and Littlefield, Routledge, and M.E. Sharpe including series on The Asia-Pacific, War and Peace, and World Social Change.
