Synopses & Reviews
This collection of essays addresses the meaning and practice of political citizenship in China over the past century, raising the question of whether reform initiatives in citizenship imply movement toward increased democratization.
After slow but steady moves toward a new conception of citizenship before 1949, there was a nearly complete reversal during the Mao regime, with a gradual reemergence beginning in the Deng era of concerns with the political rights as well as the duties of citizens. The distinguished contributors to this volume address how citizenship has been understood in China from the late imperial era to the present day, the processes by which citizenship has been fostered or undermined, the influence of the government, the different development of citizenship in mainland China and Taiwan, and the prospects of strengthening citizens' rights in contemporary China.
Valuable for its century-long perspective and for placing the historical patterns of Chinese citizenship within the context of European and American experiences, Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China investigates a critical issue for contemporary Chinese society.
About the Author
Merle Goldmanis Professor of History, Emerita, at <>Boston Universityand Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, <>Harvard University.Elizabeth J. Perryis Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at <>Harvard University. She is the author of Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Political Citizenship in Modern China
Merle Goldman and Elizabeth J. Perry I Imperial and Republican China
1. Citizens or Mothers of Citizens? Gender and the Meaning of Modern Chinese Citizenship
Joan Judge
2. Citizens in the Audience and at the Podium
David Strand
3. Democratic Calisthenics: The Culture of Urban Associations in the New Republic
Bryna Goodman
4. Questioning the Modernity of the Model Settlement: Citizenship and Exclusion in Old Shanghai
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
5. From Paris to the Paris of the East—and Back: Workers as Citizens in Modern Shanghai
Elizabeth J. Perry
II The People's Republic of China
6. The Reassertion of Political Citizenship in the Post-Mao Era: The Democracy Wall Movement
Merle Goldman
7. Personality, Biography, and History: How Hu Jiwei Strayed from the Party Path on the Road to Good Citizenship
Judy Polumbaum
8. Villagers, Elections, and Citizenship
Kevin J. O'Brien
9. Ethnic Economy of Citizenship in China: Four Approaches to Identity Formation
Chih-yu Shih
10. Do Good Businessmen Make Good Citizens? An Emerging Collective Identity Among China's Private Entrepreneurs
Bruce Dickson
11. Citizenship, Ideology, and the PRC Constitution
Yu Xingzhong
12. Law and the Gendered Citizen
Margaret Y. K. Woo
13. Constructing Citizenship: The NPC as Catalyst for Political Participation
Michael William Dowdle
III Taiwan
14. Nationalism versus Citizenship in the Republic of China on Taiwan
Shelley Rigger
Notes
Contributors