Bray / Jeffreys New Mentalities of Government in China

Emerging Professions, Vocations and Citizens
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-42236-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

New Mentalities of Government in China: Emerging Professions, Vocations and Citizens examines how the privatization and professionalization of ‘public’ service provision is transforming the nature of government and everyday life in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Government in Mao-era China (1949–1976) operated almost entirely through official organs and agencies in a hierarchical and highly regulated system of formal authority. This system administered and mobilized the population through urban work-units and rural collectives to participate in the governing of everyday life. In the post-1978 era of market-based economic reform, the old ‘mass-line’ mode of government has been progressively replaced, but not entirely supplanted, by more complex and diffuse forms of governance, which increasingly rely on expertise and service provision from a host of new professions and professionals, and vocationally orientated organizations and people, focussing on new social problems, social subjects and citizenries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bray, David

Jeffreys, Elaine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 New Mentalities of Government in China: An Introduction, David Bray and Elaine Jeffreys 2 Governmentality Studies and China: Toward a Chinese Governmentality, Michael Dutton and Barry Hindess 3 Governmentality and the Urban Economy: Consumption, Excess and the ‘Civilized City’ in China, Carolyn Cartier 4 Re-Thinking and Re-Making China’s Built Environments: Spatial Planning and the Re-Inscription of Everyday Life, David Bray 5 From Socialism to Social Work: Professionalism and Community Governance in Contemporary Urban China, Gary Sigley 6 Elite Philanthropy in China and America: The Discipline and Self-Discipline of Wealth, Elaine Jefffreys 7 Serving and Providing for Those ‘In Need’: ‘Intermediary’ Spaces of Social Action in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman 8 Experimental Postsocialism: The Chinese Hospital as Export Zone and Knowledge Park, Melinda Cooper 9 The Biopolitics of China’s HIV Governance, Yu Haiqing 10 Model Consumers: Beauty Bloggers, Everyday Experts and Governmentality in Urban China, Terry Woronov 11 Concluding Remarks, Barry Hindess and Michael Dutton

Über Autor(innen)

David Bray is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. His current research seeks to chart the socio-technical assemblages that constitute China’s rapidly changing built environments. He is the author of Social Space and Governance in Urban China: The Danwei System from Origins to Reform (2005, Stanford University Press).

Elaine Jeffreys is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (FT100100238) at the China Research Centre, and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. Elaine is the author of Prostitution Scandals in China: Policing, Media and Society (2012 Routledge) and China, Sex and Prostitution (2012 [2004] Routledge). She is the editor of China’s Governmentalies: Governing Change, Changing Government (2011 [2009] Routledge) and Sex and Sexuality in China (2009 [2006] Routledge); and co-editor, with Louise Edwards, of Celebrity in China (2010 Hong Kong University Press).