Papers presented at a symposium at the University of Colorado in 1997; many of them revised. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Big bad China and the good Chinese: am American fairy tale / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom -- Everyone's a player, but the nation's a loser: corruption in contemporary China / Lionel M. Jensen -- China's many faces: ethnic, cultural, and religious pluralism / Susan D. Blum -- Promoting human rights in China: an activist's perspective / Xiao Qiang -- China's road to a democratic society: perils and prospects / Wei Jingsheng -- Beyond exceptionalism: China's intellectuals from tragic heroes to U.S. allies / Timothy Cheek -- Identity and diversity: the complexities and contradictions of Chinese nationalism / Tong Lam -- China's new economic reforms: replacing iron rice bowls with plastic cups / Henry Rosemont, Jr. -- Development and destruction: the dimensions of China's environmental challenge -- Vaclav Smil -- Marketing femininity: images of the modern Chinese woman / Harriet Evans -- China's labor woes: will the workers crash the party? / Timothy B. Weston -- Reading out-of-print: popular culture and protest on China's western frontier / Jay Dautcher -- China's market reforms: whose human rights problem? / Tim Oakes -- Border crossings: Chinese writing, in their world and ours / Howard Goldblatt.
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