Understanding Chinese Society

1. Introduction 2. Sources of Chinese identity Marjorie Dryburgh 3. Rituals and the life cycle Lucy Zhao 4. Family and marriage Xiaowei Zang 5. Gender and sexuality Jieyu Liu 6. Contested ground: Community and neighbourhood Chunrong Liu 7. Education Gerard Postiglione 8. Status and Hierarchy Qian Forrest Zhang 9. Ethnic minorities Colin Mackerras 10. Transformation of work in post-Mao China Yi-min Lin 11. Urbanization and its impacts on China Yu Hong 12. The mass media Xiaoling Zhang 13. Environmental protection Vic Li 14. Civil society in a birdcage? Kamyee Law 15. Government and changing state-society relations Xiaowei Zang