Jia Gao

Aspirational Chinese in Competitive Social Repositionings (eBook, ePUB)

A Re-Analysis of Societal Dynamics from 1964 to 2000

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the past four or so decades, a significant amount of research efforts has been made to examine the rapid and constant social changes in China. However, most of the literature has focused on either macro- or micro-level issues, and what has not been adequately analysed is how the majority of ordinary people has reacted to and influenced the changes. This inadequacy has affected our understanding of Chinese society, its dynamics and the changing trends. Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning, and the evidence recorded in numerous recent publications and interview data, this book seeks to re-examine the ever-changing, but under-researched, societal dynamics driving social transformations in China from 1964, when the communist heir narrative was rebranded and utilised, to 2000, when Jiang Zemin formulated the Three-Represents theory to modify the ideological political thinking of China's ruling elites. This analysis focuses on how a high proportion of aspirational citizens have kept repositioning themselves in China's changing distributions of social resources and social structure, how their attitudes and behaviours have been shaped over time, what characteristics of their choices are at different stages, and how their preferences have resulted in the zig-zag patterns of China's recent social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839982903
• Artikelnr.: 63388493

Autorenporträt

Jia Gao is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Asia Institute, the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
 List of Figures
 List of Tables
 Preface and Acknowledgements
 The Absence of Everyday Chinese in the Dichotomous Paradigm
Rebranding the Communist Heir Narrative and the Cultural Revolution
Tearing the Utopian Veil Down by Sent-Down Youth
Crying Out for Changes in the Second Half of the 1970s
Battling for the Advantages Under the Dengist Political Alliances
Climbing Different Social Ladders from the Mid-1980s
Filling in the Post-1989 Vacuum Left by Educated Liberals
Seizing Chances to be Entrepreneurial in Post-1992 China
Towards a Theory of Competitive Social Repositioning
 References
 Index