Dear Urban China List Members,

Apologies for cross-posting.

I am happy to announce the publication of a new edited volume: The Chinese Corporatist State Adaption, Survival and Resistance (Routledge 2013). Details of the volume are as follows:
 
Title: The Chinese Corporatist State: Adaption, Survival and Resistance
Editors: Jennifer YJ Hsu and Reza Hasmath
Publisher: Routledge, 2013
Link to Publisher: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415640725/

The modern Chinese state has traditionally affected every major aspect of domestic society. With the growing liberalization of the economy, coupled with increasingly complex social issues, there is a belief that the state is retreating from an array of social problems from health to the environment. Yet, a survey of China’s contemporary political landscape today reveals not only a central state which plays an active role in managing social problems, but also new state actors at the local level which are increasingly seeking to partner with various non-governmental organizations or social associations.

This book looks at how NGOs, social organizations, business associations, trade unions, and religious associations interact with the state, and explores how social actors have negotiated the influence of the state at both national and local levels. It further examines how a corporatist understanding of state-society relations can be reformulated, as old and new social stakeholders play a greater role in managing contemporary social issues. The book goes on to chart the differences in how the state behaves locally and centrally, and finally discusses the future direction of the corporatist state.

Drawing on a range of sources from recent fieldwork and the latest data, this timely collection will appeal to students and scholars working in the fields of Chinese politics, Chinese economics and Chinese society.

Table of Contents:
Foreword, David SG Goodman 

1. The Changing Faces of State Corporatism, Jennifer YJ Hsu and Reza Hasmath 

2. Joining Forces to Save the Nation: Corporate Educational Governance in Republican China, Barbara Schulte 

3. A Self-Defeating Secret Weapon? The Institutional Limitations of Corporatism on United Front Work, Gerry Groot 

4. Collective Wage Bargaining and State-Corporatism in Contemporary China, Xian Huang 

5. Keep Business to Business: Associations of Private Enterprise in China, Keming Yang 

6. Local State Entrepreneurialism in China: Its Urban Representations, Institutional Foundations and Policy Implications, Lei Wang 

7. The State-Religion Relationship in Contemporary China: Corporatism With Hegemony, Carsten T. Vala 

8. The Rise and Impact of the Local State on the NGO Sector, Jennifer YJ Hsu and Reza Hasmath
 
9. The Chinese Corporatist State: Lessons Learned for Other Jurisdictions, Jennifer YJ Hsu and Reza Hasmath


Kind regards,

Jennifer YJ Hsu
Department of Political Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada