Socialist China, Capitalist China

Guoguang Wu holds a chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations at University of Victoria, Canada, where he also teaches in both departments of political science and history. The author of numerous books, he and Helen Lansdowne have co-edited two other volumes, also published by Routledge: Zhao Ziyang and China’s Political Future and China Turns to Multilateralism: Foreign Policy and Regional Security. Helen Lansdowne is the Assistant Director at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Canada. She also lectures in the department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria and in the department of Social Sciences at Camosun College.

• 1. Introduction 2. Growing Social Unrest in China: Rising Social Discontents and Popular Protests 3. Household Registration, Social Exclusion, and Rural Migrants in Cities 4. Training the Unemployed to Become Active Job-Seekers in Post-Mao China 5. An Institutional Analysis of China’s Failed Healthcare Reform 6. China, Christianity and the Global Market of Belief Systems 7. Super Voice Girls and Freezing Point: Media, Hegemony, and Domination in the New China 8. Granting or Refusing the Right to Petition: The Dilemma of China’s Xinfang System

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