China's Transformations: The Stories Beyond the HeadlinesLionel M. Jensen, Timothy B. Weston This successor volume to China beyond the Headlines takes the reader even farther beyond the "front stage" to explore a China few Westerners have seen. The contributors argue that the great gap between what specialists understand and the general public believes has led to distorted and potentially dangerous misunderstandings of the most powerful emerging player on the global stage. Seeking to bridge that gap, a group of prominent scholars, journalists, and activists challenge readers to move past the typical images of China presented by the media and to think about the common problems shared by China and the United States. In an entirely new set of essays, they explore such critical issues as environmental degradation, nationalism, unemployment, film and literature, news reporting, the Internet, sex tourism, and the costs of the economic boom to vividly portray the complexity of life in contemporary China and how surprisingly often it speaks to the American experience. Contributions by: Bei Dao, Susan D. Blum, Timothy Cheek, Martin Fackler, John Gittings, Howard Goldblatt, Peter Hays Gries, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Lionel M. Jensen, Tong Lam, Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Jonathan Noble, Tim Oakes, David Ownby, Judith Shapiro, Timothy B. Weston, and Xiao Qiang |
Contents
TroubleMakers or TruthSayers? The Peculiar Status of Foreign Correspondents in China | 33 |
The Political Roots of Chinas Environmental Degradation | 50 |
Fueling Chinas Capitalist Transformation The Human Cost | 68 |
Qigong Falun Gong and the Body Politic in Contemporary China | 90 |
Narratives to Live By The Century of Humiliation and Chinese National Identity Today | 112 |
The Internet A Force to Transform Chinese Society? | 129 |
The Politics of Filmmaking and Movie Watching | 144 |
Back Stage | 161 |
Herding the Masses Public Opinion and Democracy in Todays China | 197 |
Sex Tourism and the Lure of the Ethnic Erotic in Southwest China | 216 |
Welcome to Paradise A SinoUS JointVenture Project | 240 |
The New Chinese Intellectual Globalized Disoriented Reoriented | 265 |
Reporting China since the 1960s | 285 |
China the United States and the Fragile Planet | 303 |
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About the Contributors | 331 |
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