Zweig, David Stephen

China’s Economic Dilemmas in the 1990s: The Problem of Reforms, Modernisation and Interdependence: Edited by the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States Copyright © 1993 Taylor & Francis – Published 2015 by Routledge

SUMMARY & INTRODUCTION: China;s rural industry has been the most vibrant sector of the national economy sine the mid-1980s. For several decades after they first emerged from the 1958 Great Leap Forward as a product of “self-reliant” development, rural factories were seen both in and outside of China as an ancillary part of China’s economic development. They offered a means by which rural surplus labor could effectively use local resources. By the late 1960s, rural industry became a conduit for introducing urban technology to the rural areas. Yet it remained part of Mao’s cellulat approach to development and his goal of protecting the urban sector from the economic demands of the countryside. Rural, not urban, industry would supply finances and material for agricultural modernization, leaving urban, state-owned industry free to fulfill urban demands.

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Struggling Over Land in China: Peasant Resistance After Collectivization, l966-l986

SYNOPISIS: Peasant rebellions are uncommon. “Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance” explores peasants’ foot dragging, feigned ingorance, false compliance, manipulation, flight, slander, theft, arson, sabotage, and similar prosaic forms of struggle. These kinds of resistance stop well short of collective defiance, a strategy usually suicidal for the subordinate. The central argument about peasant resistance is presented in the opening chapter by James Scott in which he summarizes and extends the thesis of his book on Malaysia’s peasantry, “Weapons of the Weak”. Scott’s ideas are employed and refined in the ensuing seven country studies of peasant resistance: Poland, India, Egypt, Colombia, China, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.

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Zweig, David Stephen

Building Sino-American Relations: an analysis for the 1990s / Edited by William T. Tow. New York: Paragon House, c1991, p.57-94

SYNOPISIS: Most students of contemporary China are familiar with the Joint Economic Committee studies on China, which have appeared periodically since 1967. This is the most recent study in the series (released in April, 1991). This volume follows the format of the previous studies, offering a broad sweep of its subject matter. The 50 chapters – contributed by Chinese scholars in government, universities and private research centres – are divided into five major parts. Each section begins with an overview which summarises and comments on the main points in each of the chapters. The volume offers a detailed examination of China’s economy, and the political and social factors currently facing the leadership in Beijing.

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Zweig, David

Chinese Society: Change, Conflict, and resistance / Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden. London: Routledge, 2000, p. 120-142

SYNOPISIS: This book, written by an interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars, offers an authoritative analysis of contemporary Chinese society, protest and resistance. Topics covered include:
* labour and environmental disputes
* rural and ethnic conflict
* migration
* legal challenges, intellectual and religious dissidence
* opposition to family planning
* suicide.
This topical volume challenges conventional images of contemporary Chinese society, providing a comprehensive resource for both undergraduates and specialists in the field.

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Chung, Siu Fung

Grass-roots Democracy in India and China: the Right to Participate / Edited by Manoranjan Mohanty etc. New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2007, p.339-362

Both India and China have experienced economic changes that have generated new challenges for local institutions. This volume closely studies the resultant grass-roots political experiences in these countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the process of democratization and highlights the growing demands for participation and the complex power structures interjecting them.

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Zweig, David Stephen

The Movement of Global Talent: The Impact of High Skill Labor Flows from India and China / Edited by Udai Tambar. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, The Policy Research Institute for the Region, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 2007, p.9-22

Based on conference proceedings, December 7-8, 2006.
A collection of essays and commentary sponsored by the Policy Research Institute for the Region at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, The Center for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania, the World Bank, and the Global Development Learning Network.

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Han, Donglin

中国留学人才发展报告, 2009 / 王辉耀编; 苗丹国, 程希副编. 北京市 : 机械工业出版社, 2009, p.279-294

内容简介:《中国留学人才发展报告(2009)》是国内外众多研究中国留学人才问题的学者、专家，以及在出国留学管理和服务岗位上长期关注这一问题的工作人员合作的结晶。
《中国留学人才发展报告(2009)》编写人员既有“海归”和在外留学人员，也有不具留学经历的本土学者，他们对中国留学人才问题的关注和研究，既有历史学和社会学的审视，也有政治学和经济学的考察，构成了一个具有相对合理知识结构的团队。
《中国留学人才发展报告(2009)》既有宏观概述，也有个案分析；既有基于社会调查进行的实证研究，也有对档案资料的发掘和梳理；既有具体工作实践中的认知积累和理论总结，也有学术研究的批判反思和观点提炼。
《中国留学人才发展报告(2009)》最后的《出国留学60年大事概览（1949～2009）》是迄今为止最全面、最准确、最完整的一份对于新中国出国留学活动60年重大事件的史料记录，对于研究中国当代留学问题具有重要的参考价值。

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Zweig, David Stephen

Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics / Vol. 1/ Edited by Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, Jonathan Unger. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009, p.281-306

SYNOPSIS: Chinese society and its political system are predicated on traditions of governing that are deeply alien to most readers from liberal, Western powers. Chinese governance reflects both a long, indigenous tradition of statecraft and the Leninist legacies of the People’s Republic’s ruling Communist Party. As China becomes ever more powerful―economically, diplomatically, militarily, and culturally―it becomes increasingly important to understand its governing dynamics. But to what extent can social-science theories of political rule, hierarchy and power, class formation, economic development, urbanization, and demographic and family transition, which were developed in Western contexts, explain China’s societal and political dynamics? What sorts of theoretical language have emerged from the study of Chinese society and politics, and how might these theories enable social scientists to view social and political dynamics in other parts of the world in a new light?

Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics, a new four-volume Major Work from Routledge, explores and answers these and other urgent questions by collecting the best foundational and cutting-edge scholarship on Mao-era and contemporary Chinese society and politics. The collection adopts a dual approach. On the one hand, to address the increasing fascination about China among Western scholars and students from a number of disciplines, it collects the best work that empirically describes Chinese society and its politics. On the other hand, to examine the theoretical implications of the study of Chinese society for Western social science, it also brings together the best work to have used empirical examinations of the People’s Republic to interrogate theories developed in Western contexts or to develop new theoretical positions. The editors have in particular paid especial attention to cases where debates have arisen about the proper ways of describing and theorizing Chinese governance and social dynamics.

The first volume in the collection (‘The Maoist Era’) brings together the best work to have been published on Chinese society and politics in the Maoist period (1949–76). Volume II (‘Politics and Social Institutions’), meanwhile, collects the key research dealing with both the theoretical implications and the empirical complexities of the post-Mao evolution at the highest level of the political leadership.

The distinctions between urban and rural are especially significant in the People’s Republic, not least because of China’s system of residential registration which denies rural residents any right to live permanently in a city, and the final two volumes are organized with these fundamental distinctions in mind. Volume III (‘Urban China’) gathers the best work on topics including: urban spaces (e.g. the creation and dismantlement of the socialist city, the creation of virtual cities, and the making of Olympics Beijing); the newly prosperous constituencies (including China’s ‘new rich’ and the development of a huge and increasingly self-identifying middle class); China’s working class; internal migration; and urban social change. Volume IV (‘Rural China in the Reform Era’) includes work brought together under themes such as rural politics; family farming; changes in rural society in a period of economic reform; and China’s ethnic minorities.

Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, leading academics in the field, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

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Zweig, David Stephen

Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, / Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2010, p.123-147

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This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues.

Topics covered include:

• labour and environmental disputes
• rural and ethnic conflict
• migration
• legal challenges
• intellectual and religious dissidence
• opposition to family planning.

The newly revised, third edition adds two new chapters on gender and the family, and the reform of the Hukou system thus providing a comprehensive text for both undergraduates and specialists in the field, encouraging the reader to challenge conventional images of contemporary Chinese society.

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