China's Governmentalities: Governing Change, Changing Government

Elaine Jeffreys

Routledge, 2009 - Political Science - 178 pages

Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarked on a programme of âe~reform and opennessâe(tm) in the late 1970s, Chinese society has undergone a series of dramatic transformations in almost all realms of social, cultural, economic and political life and the Peopleâe(tm)s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a global power. Chinaâe(tm)s post-1978 transition from âe~socialist planâe(tm) to âe~market socialismâe(tm) has also been accompanied by significant shifts in how the practice and objects of government are understood and acted upon.

Chinaâe(tm)s Governmentalities outlines the nature of these shifts, and contributes to emerging studies of governmentality in non-western and non-liberal settings, by showing how neoliberal discourses on governance, development, education, the environment, community, religion, and sexual health, have been raised in other contexts. In doing so, it opens discussions of governmentality to âe~other worldsâe(tm) and the glocal politics of the present.

The book will appeal to scholars from a wide range of disciplines interested in the work of Michel Foucault, neo-liberal strategies of governance, and governmental rationalities in contemporary China.

About the author

Elaine Jeffreys is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the China Research Centre and Associate Professor in China Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney.

Bibliographic information

• Title: China's Governmentalities: Governing Change, Changing Government; Volume 33 of Routledge studies on China in transition
• Editor: Elaine Jeffreys
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Routledge, 2009
• ISBN: 041554744X, 9780415547444
• Length: 178 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General