China Today: Economic Reforms, Social Cohesion And Collective Identities

This volume thoroughly analyzes several important aspects of today's China: economic changes, the search for a social compact in urban China, the identification of new social conflicts that coexist in the dialects of control and cohesion, and the problem of nation building and collective identities. The authorship is largely made up of renowned scholars of China from Europe, and there are also contributions from authors from the United States, Mainland China and Taiwan.