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  • Marriage, Gender and Sex in a Contemporary Chinese Village

    by Sun-Pong Yuen, Pui-Lam Law, Yuk-Ying Ho, Fong-Ying Yu ...
    This book explores changing concepts of marriage and gender relationships and attitudes toward sex in a rural Chinese community over the past five decades. The book is based on a study of an industrialized peasant village in Guangdong Province from 1994 to 1996 and subsequent visits from 2000 to 2002. According to the authors, the rural economic reforms of the 1980s in southern China have ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • New Connectivities in China

    Virtual, Actual and Local Interactions

    Edited by Pui-lam Law ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The fast diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in China has brought forth new forms of connection among the Chinese and has changed their social lives. Virtual networks have been developed and in turn have led to the formation of networks in the actual world. This collection explores the resultant complications in the relationship between virtual, actual, and local ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Mobile Communication and Greater China

    Edited by Rodney Wai-chi Chu, Leopoldina Fortunati, Pui-Lam Law, Shanhua Yang ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China
    This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond, the contributors argue that the mobile phone is in fact an important means by which one can understand a rapidly changing China, and the developing culture of mobile phone usage reflects both the cultural norms and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • The Power of the Internet in China

    Citizen Activism Online

    by Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Contemporary Chinese Politics

    New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies

    Edited by Allen Carlson, Mary E. Gallagher, Kenneth Lieberthal, Melanie Manion ...
    Contemporary Chinese Politics: Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies considers how new and diverse sources and methods are changing the study of Chinese politics. Contributors spanning three generations in China studies place their distinct qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches in the framework of the discipline and point to challenges or opportunities (or both) of adapting new ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

    by Fengshu Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young people under thirty ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific

    Gender and The Art of Being Mobile

    by Larissa Hjorth ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Asia.com
    This century has been marked by the rapid and divergent uptake of mobile telephony throughout the world. The mobile phone has become a poignant symbol for postmodernity and the attendant modes of global mobility and immobility. Most notably, the icon of the mobile phone is most palpable in the Asia-Pacific in which a diversity of innovation and consumer practices – reflecting gender and locality – ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution

    Social changes and state responses

    Edited by Xiaoling Zhang, Yongnian Zheng ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world’s largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China has overtaken the USA as the world’s biggest supplier of information technology goods. However, this ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Chinese Social Media

    Face, Sociality, and Civility

    by Shuhan Chen, Peter Lunt ...
    Series series Digital Activism And Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication
    What role does social media play in the lives of Chinese youths as they adapt to the rapid economic and social changes in modern China? This book examines the social media experiences and practices of young middle class Chinese who moved to Beijing to study and with the hope of work and participation in the possibilities of social and professional life. Through an analysis of their use of WeChat ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Technomobility in China

    Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones

    by Cara Wallis ...
    Series Book 11 - Critical Cultural Communication
    Winner of the 2014 Bonnie Ritter Book AwardWinner of the 2013 James W. Carey Media Research AwardAs unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to “see the world” and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies

    Edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra, Jane Vincent ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and keep connected with their communities of origin. Furthermore, the book analyses the different ways in ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Connecting Taiwan

    Participation – Integration – Impacts

    Edited by Carsten Storm ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    Taiwan has often been characterised as an isolated society in its search for sovereignty and security. Its contact with the world in an era of globalization and post-modernity, however, has increasingly led to Taiwanese actors successfully participating in many regional and global fields.In this book an international team of scholars presents cases studies and theoretical debates emphasising ... Read more

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