The end of the Chinese dream : why Chinese people fear the future /

"Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality. Preparing this book Gerard Lemos asked hundreds of Chinese men and women living in Chon...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lemos, Gerard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Social change > China > Chongqing.
Social stability > China > Chongqing.
National characteristics, Chinese.
Stabilité sociale > Chine > Chongqing.
Chinois.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
HISTORY > Modern > 21st Century.
Manners and customs.
Social change.
Social conditions
Social stability.
Soziale Situation
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Zukunftsangst
Nationalcharakter
Soziale Situation.
Wirtschaftliche Lage.
Sozioökonomischer Wandel.
Zukunftsangst.
Chongqing (China) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Chongqing (China) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
China > Chongqing.
China
Chongqing
Chongqing.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Getting nowhere in China
  • Chongqing
  • Chaos, reform and inequality
  • The wish tree
  • The Chinese dream
  • Unhappy families
  • Education pressure, hope and despair
  • Failing health
  • Lifelong financial insecurity
  • Exodus from the suffering land
  • Losers and their losses
  • Trauma without recovery
  • The power of the powerless
  • Plutocrats in the leviathan
  • Afterword: what next for China?

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