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The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China

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Description for The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFSG; JFSL3; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.

Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is driven by the need to preserve social and political stability, but such priorities must adapt to the progressive privatization of urban residential space and an increasingly complex set of societal forces. Tomba's vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801479359
SKU
V9780801479359
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Ref
99-1

About Luigi Tomba
Luigi Tomba is a Senior Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University. He is the author of Paradoxes of Labour Reform: Chinese Labour Theory and Practice from Socialism to the Market and coeditor of The China Journal.

Reviews for The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China
The Government Next Door is a great title for a book on [neighborhood] politics in China. For some, the title might invoke associations of kind, unassuming politicians who are part of the community themselves. Others might feel trepidation: after all, resident committees, though legally social organizations, are extensions of an authoritarian regime. Judging by the subtlety of argument that permeates ... Read more

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