Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China

Edited by Merle Goldman

Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry

    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

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Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.

Elizabeth J. Perry is 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.