China's Governmentalities
eBook - ePub

China's Governmentalities

Governing Change, Changing Government

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

China's Governmentalities

Governing Change, Changing Government

About this book

Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarked on a programme of 'reform and openness' in the late 1970s, Chinese society has undergone a series of dramatic transformations in almost all realms of social, cultural, economic and political life and the People's Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a global power. China's post-1978 transition from 'socialist plan' to 'market socialism' has also been accompanied by significant shifts in how the practice and objects of government are understood and acted upon.

China's Governmentalities outlines the nature of these shifts, and contributes to emerging studies of governmentality in non-western and non-liberal settings, by showing how neoliberal discourses on governance, development, education, the environment, community, religion, and sexual health, have been raised in other contexts. In doing so, it opens discussions of governmentality to 'other worlds' and the glocal politics of the present.

The book will appeal to scholars from a wide range of disciplines interested in the work of Michel Foucault, neo-liberal strategies of governance, and governmental rationalities in contemporary China.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Notes on Contributors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1. Governmentality, Governance and China
  7. 2. Passionately Governmental: Maoism and the Structured Intensities of Revolutionary Governmentality
  8. 3. Governing China's Peasant Migrants: Building Xiaokang Socialism and Harmonious Society
  9. 4. Negotiating Modernity at China's Periphery: Development and Policy Interventions in Nujiang Prefecture
  10. 5. Building ā€˜Communityā€™: New Strategies of Governance in Urban China
  11. 6. Governmental Rationalities of Environmental Cityā€“Building in Contemporary China
  12. 7. ā€˜Religious Workā€™: Governing Religion in Reformā€“Era China
  13. 8. Governing Sexual Health in the Peopleā€™s Republic of China