In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the "quality" of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of "human capital" is seen as fundamental for economic growth and national progress. She ...(展开全部)

In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the "quality" of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of "human capital" is seen as fundamental for economic growth and national progress. She ...(展开全部)

Lisa M. Hoffman is Associate Professor in the Urban Studies Program at the University of Washington Tacoma.

Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key themes - ...(展开全部)

美国华盛顿州立大学政治学博士，国际著名中国问题实证研究专家，现任美国爱达荷州立大学研究生院院长，威廉·博拉政治学教授。 长期从事比较政治学和中国政治的实证研究，尤其是在中国民意调查研究方面成就斐然。2009年受聘为教育部长江学者，上海交通大学讲座教授。 出版著作多部：《中国民众政治支持的测量与分析》（斯坦福大学出版社，2004）、《国家的盟友：私营企业家和中国的政治变迁》（哈佛大学出版社，2010），《见风使舵的民主派：中国的中产阶级》（牛津大学出版社，2011）.

Has the current political system in the People’s Republic of China lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese public? On the basis of three carefully drawn surveys of Beijing residents between 1995 and 1999, the author finds that diffuse support for the current political system—based on attitudes toward institutions and values—remains strong, at least among city-dwellers, t...(展开全部)

Lala (lesbian) and gay communities in mainland China have emerged rapidly in the 21st century. Alongside new freedoms and modernizing reforms, and with mainstream media and society increasingly tolerant, lalas still experience immense family and social pressures to a degree that this book argues is deeply gendered. The first anthropological study to examine everyday lala lives,...(展开全部)

As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic, political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such processes. At the same time, international communication scholars have long been interested in how local, national, and transnational media communications shape people’s attitudes and val...(展开全部)