Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: zang xiaowei

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  • UYGHUR CONCEPTIONS OF FAMILY AND SOCIETY
    XIAOWEI ZANG
    Contributing to existing literature on ethnic studies in China, this book is a study of minority subjective experiences in China, using Uyghur Muslims as a case study. By examining Uyghur conceptions of family and society, it investigates whether or not ethnic minorities are culturally capable of understanding and internalizing global norms on equality, community, citizenship, ...

    $1,260.00

  • UNDERSTANDING CHINESE SOCIETY
    ZANG, XIAOWEI
    This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertaken not only of China’s family patterns, education system, status, hierarchy, and ethnic diversity, but also of China’s mass media, legal system and social control, work, and cultura...

    $1,600.00

  • CHOOSING CHINA'S LEADERS
    KOU, CHIEN-WEN / ZANG, XIAOWEI
    Political elites are a key topic in contemporary China studies, and have been investigated in relation to factional politics, generation politics, technocracy, and crucially, institutionalization. The institutionalization of elite replacement began in China in the 1980s and quickly accelerated after the early 1990s, as mechanisms emerged to regulate political elites’ entry and ...

    $1,420.00

  • ELITES AND GOVERNANCE IN CHINA
    ZANG, XIAOWEI / KOU, CHIEN-WEN
    This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the top leadership, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of shared governance and broadene...

    $1,320.00

  • ISLAM, FAMILY LIFE, AND GENDER INEQUALITY IN URBAN CHINA
    XIAOWEI ZANG
    This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it shows in quantitative terms the extent of gender inequalities among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi and tests whether the gender inequalities are a difference in kind or in degree. It examines five aspects of gender inequality: employment, ...

    $1,560.00

  • ETHNICITY AND URBAN LIFE IN CHINA
    XIAOWEI ZANG
    This much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China. Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between March 2001 and July 2004, it looks at the contrast between the urban life of the Han people, the ethnic majority in the city of Lanzhou, and the Hui people, the largest ethnic...

    $1,560.00

  • ELITE DUALISM AND LEADERSHIP SELECTION IN CHINA
    XIAOWEI ZANG
    Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By studying over one and a half thousand top political Chinese leaders, this book seeks to answer these questions and, as a result, defines how Chinese leadership is stratified. Unlike existing research on Chinese leaders, Elite Dualism...

    $1,240.00