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Revolutionizing the Family
A new look at the impact of the Communist Revolution on Chinese family structure.
Useful Bullshit
In Useful Bullshit Neil J. Diamant pulls back the curtain on early constitutional conversations between citizens and officials in the PRC. Scholars have argued that China, like the former USSR, promulgated constitutions to enhance its domestic and international legitimacy by opening up the constitution-making process to ordinary people, and by granting its citizens political and socioeconomic rights. But what did ordinary officials and people say about their constitutions and rights? Did constitutions contribute to state legitimacy? Over the course of four decades, the PRC government encouraged millions of citizens to pose questions about, and suggest revisions to, the draft of a new constit...
Revolutionizing the Family
In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this comprehensive study of the effects of that law, Neil J. Diamant draws on newly opened urban and rural archival sources to offer a detailed analysis of how the law was interpreted and implemented throughout the country. In sharp contrast to previous studies of the Marriage Law, which have argued that it had little effect in rural areas, Diamant argues that the law reshaped marriage and family relationship...
Embattled Glory
This groundbreaking book examines the treatment of veterans of the People's Liberation Army and military families as an illuminating window into Chinese patriotism, citizenship, and legitimacy. Using a wealth of recently declassified archival documents and employing a wide comparative perspective, Neil J. Diamant presents the first large-scale study of these groups in comparison to similar populations in other parts of Asia and in the West. He offers an unprecedented look at the "everyday interactions" among veterans, military families, state officials, and ordinary citizens as they attempted to secure urban residence, jobs, spouses, medical care, and respect. Often celebrated by the governm...
The Persistent Power of Human Rights
This book offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research arguing for the persistent power of human rights norms.
Engaging the Law in China
This book explores legal mobilization, culture, and institutions in contemporary China from a perspective informed by 'law and society' scholarship.
Playing by the Informal Rules
Sheds new light on social protest and its implications on power, rules, legitimacy, and resistance in modern societies.
Unending Capitalism
In this provocative account, Karl Gerth argues that consumerism rather than communism explains the history of China since 1949.
Authoritarian Legality in China
This book examines Chinese workers' experiences and shows how disenchantment with the legal system drives workers from the courtroom to the streets.
A New Deal for China’s Workers?
China’s leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from America’s New Deal, but they are irrevocably opposed to the independent trade unions and mass mobilization that brought it about. Cynthia Estlund’s crisp comparative analysis makes China’s labor unrest and reform legible to Western readers.
