Overview
- Addresses policy regulation of urban residency in the second decade of the 21st Century
- Examines the relationship between policy and polity in contemporary China
- Offers a fresh account of the importance of policy in statecraft
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This book presents a study of how urban residency in China is regulated by state policy in the second decade of the 21st Century. Far from a straightforward divide between natives and newcomers, policy in this period has created delicate cross-classifications of internal migrants and attendant conditions under which they reside in particular urban areas. With reference to some of the most profound social theorists of the present day, such symbolic acts of division are explained as acts of statecraft carried out by different levels of public administration in the face of multiple quandaries. The book will appeal to those with an interest in the governance of population and territory in China, and by extension, in other parts of the contemporary world.
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Paul Cheung is a sociolinguist based in **'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research is centred upon the uses of public-domain communication in dealing with problems of feeding, healing and housing the population. His work has appeared in periodicals such as The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Medical Journal of Australia and Territory, Politics, Governance. He is also a co-editor of the volume Suzhou in Transition (Routledge, 2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Statecraft in Symbols
Book Subtitle: Policy and the Life of the Chinese Nation
Authors: Paul Cheung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3319-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3318-9Published: 01 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-3319-6Published: 30 June 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 167
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Governance and Government, Public Policy, Philosophy, general, Asian Politics