Social Issues in China

1. Introduction: Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment as Social Issues and Public Policy Challenges
Sheying Chen, Zhidong Hao

Part I. Gender Relations in China

2. Rural Chinese Women’s Political Participation: Problems and Prospects
Chiew-Siang Bryan Ho, Qin Li

3. Self-Assertive Mistresses and Corrupt Officials: The Complex Interdependencies
Helen Xiaoyan Wu

4. Domestic Labor, Gendered Intergenerational Contract, and Shared Elderly Care in Rural South China
Clara Wai-chun To

5. The Growth and Dilemma of Women’s NGOs in China: A Case Study of the Beijing Zhongze Legal Consulting Service Center for Women
Jun Li

Part II. Ethnic Relations in China

6. Language, Learning, and Identity: Problematizing the Education for Tibetans
Chung Dolma

7. Interpreting the Ethnicization of Social Conflict in China: Ethnonationalism, Identity, and Social Justice
Grace Cheng

8. A Harmonious Society: National Policies and Ethnic Relations
A. Tom Grunfeld

9. NGO Development in China’s Ethnic Areas
Xu Liu

Part III. Labor Relations in China

10. Labor Contract, Trade Union Membership, and Workplace Relations: A Study of Migrant Workers in Guangdong Province, China
Zhiming Cheng, Haining Wang, Yuanyuan Chen

11. Labor Protection for Migrant Workers in China: A Perspective of Institutional Reform
Qingwen Xu

12. From Societization of Workers’ Rights Defending to the Construction of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Experience of Yiwu City’s General Trade Union
Xinjun Gao

13. The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary China’s Labor Movement: A Preliminary Exploration
Zhidong Hao

Part IV. The Environmental Movement

14. Environmental Problems in China: Issues and Prospects
Peter Zabielskis

15. The Struggle for Survival: A Case Study of an Environmental NGO in Zhejiang Province
Hao Xin, Jing Yang

16. Public Participation in Environmental Protection in China: Three Case Analyses
Wanxin Li, Jieyan Liu, Duoduo Li

17. Political Opportunity and the Anti-dam Movement in China: A Case Study of Nu River
Kin-man Chan, Yan Zhou

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Social Policy, Public Health, Quality of Life Research, Gender Studies, Demography