Urban Chinese Governance, Contention, and Social Control in the New Millennium.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Shifting Structures and Agendas in Urban Chinese Governance and Resistance in a New Era -- Chapter 2 Manufacturing Consent: How Grassroots Government Assimilates Public Resistance -- Chapter 3 Pluralistic Governance: Reflecting on Participatory Development Theory in Post-disaster Community Reconstruction - a Case Study of the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake New Home Plan -- Chapter 4 Between Home and Society: Urban Women in Environmental Contention - the Example of Opposition to Building a Waste Incineration Power Plant in G City -- Chapter 5 Media Contact, Public Participation, and Political Efficacy in Sudden Public Incidents: an Empirical Study of the PX Incident in Xiamen -- Chapter 6 Performative Protests: Landscapes, Challenges, and Opportunity Mechanisms - Two Case Studies from the Pearl River Delta -- Chapter 7 The Political Economy of Sex and the Gender Secret of Capitalism: Thoughts on the Debate Surrounding the 2014 Crackdown on Prostitution in Dongguan -- Chapter 8 Gray Governance and the Reproduction of Urban Violence: Analysis of the Mechanisms of "Urban Management" Practice on Lumo Road -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Authors.

This book presents exciting new research from a diverse group of China-based social scientists. Each chapter offers exciting new data and fresh insights on a broad variety of essential topics in contemporary urban politics and society.

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