Social Issues in China Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hao, Zhidong (Editor), Chen, Sheying (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice ; 1
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Public health.; Medical research.; Social policy.; Sociology.; Quality of life.; Demography.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Social Policy.; Public Health.; Quality of Life Research.; Gender Studies.

Social Issues in China: Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment  Zhidong Hao and Sheying Chen, editors  One of the great ironies of world politics belongs to China. Having carried out a revolution to reform societal ills, it has ended up with broadly the same problems as the West: gender inequ...

Table of Contents:

•   Part I   Gender Relations in China
• 1: Introduction: Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment as Social Issues and Public Policy Challenges
• 2. Rural Chinese Women's Political Participation: Problems and Prospects
• 3.Self-Assertive Mistresses and Corrupt Officials: The Complex  Interdependencies
• 4. Domestic Labor, Gendered Intergenerational Contract and Shared Elderly Care in Rural South China
• 5. The Growth and Dilemma of Women's NGOs in China
• Part II   Ethnic Relations in China
• 6.Language, Learning and Identity: Problematizing the Education for Tibetans
•   7.   Interpreting the Ethnicization of Social Conflict in China: Ethnonationalism, Identity, and Social Justice
• 8. A Harmonious Society: National Policies and Ethnic Relations.-9. NGO Development in China's Ethnic Areas
• Part III Labor Relations in China.-10.Labor Contract, Trade Union Membership and Workplace Relations.-11.Labor Protection for Migrant Workers in China: A Perspective of Institutional Reform.-12.From Societization of Workers’ Rights Defending to the Construction of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Experience of Yiwu City's General Trade Union.-13. The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary China's Labor Movement: A Preliminary Exploration.-Part IV  The Environmental Movement
• 14.Environmental Problems in China: Issues and Prospects
• 15. The Struggle for Survival: A Case Study of an Environmental NGO in Zhejiang Province.-16.Public Participation in Environmental Protection in China: Three Case Analyses
• 17. Political Opportunity and the Anti-dam Movement in China: A Case Study of Nu River.-.