Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins (RoutledgeCurzon Studies on the Chinese Economy)
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Book Description
This book makes a novel contribution to the study of citizenship by examining how individuals at the margins of Chinese society deal with state efforts to transform them into model citizens.
Based on extensive original research, it examines how individuals at the margins of Chinese society experienced the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This book shows how individuals dealt with state attempts to transform them into model citizens, arguing that social and cultural citizenship has a greater impact on peoples lives than legal, civil and political citizenship. The seven case studies in this book present intimate portraits of the conflicted identities of peasants, criminals, ethnic minorities, the urban poor, rural migrant children in the cities, mainland migrants in Hong Kong and Chinese youth studying abroad as they negotiate the perilous dilemmas presented by globalization and neoliberalism. Although the focus is on marginal groups, the book portrays the nature of citizenship in China overall.
Drawing on a diverse array of theories and methods from anthropology, sociology, education, political science, cultural studies and development studies, Chinese Citizenship presents fresh perspectives and highlights the often devastating consequences that citizenship distinctions can have on Chinese lives.
About the Author
Vanessa L. Fong is n Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. She is also the author of Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy (2004) and co-editor with Hua R. Lan of Women in Republican China (1999).
Rachel Murphy is a research fellow in the Contemporary Chinese Studies Programme and Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Her publications include How Migrant Labour is Changing Rural China (2002) and articles on rural development, entrepreneurship, education, gender and population in China.
Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins (RoutledgeCurzon Studies on the Chinese Economy),Vanessa L. Fong,Rachel Murphy,Routledge,0415371457,China,Citizenship,Economic Conditions,Economics - General,Ethnic Studies - General,Marginality, Social,Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights,Politics / Current Events,Social Science,Sociology,Study and teaching,Cultural studies
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