Where other books have discussed selected social practices in China, this volume is unique in its coverage of the entire social control apparatus of that countr

Using a unique interdisciplinary, cultural-institutional analysis, Politics of Control is the first comprehensive study of how, in the early decades of the Peop

China is more than a socialist market economy led by ever more reform-minded leaders. It is a country whose people seek liberty on a daily basis. Th eir success

Traditionally, social theorists in the West have structured models of state social control according to the tenet that socialization is accomplished by means of

Despite the significant progress it had achieved in the past 60 years, especially in the past 30 years since Deng Xiaoping's reform initiatives in the late 1970