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LA REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DE CHINE En 1949, bien qu'elle se proclame en rupture radicale vis-a-vis des regimes qui l'ont precedee, la Republique populaire de Chine reprend a son compte les objectifs formules par les reformateurs et les revolutionnaires de la premiere moitie du XXe siecle. La difference tient aux moyens mobilises pour y parvenir. Dans les faits, la pratique du totalitarisme par Mao Zedong n'entrainera pas les transformations annoncees. Il legue une societe affaiblie et fracturee. Il faut attendre le tournant des annees 1980 pour que la promesse de modernisation soit enfin tenue. Les reformes engagent alors le pays dans des mutations plus rapides qu'aucune societe humaine n'en a jamais connues. Industrialisation, urbanisation, bureaucratisation, globalisation, migrations ne sont pourtant pas des phenomenes propres a la Chine ; s'ils y prennent une proportion hors du commun, ils s'eclairent par le comparatisme. Pour conduire cette demonstration, l'ouvrage s'appuie sur les acquis les plus recents de la recherche en sciences sociales alors que l'enquete de terrain est desormais possible et les archives pour partie ouvertes.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570518073617,"sku":"GOR013712378","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2251447970.jpg?v=1751414736"},{"product_id":"contemporary-china-book-gilles-guiheux-9781509552498","title":"Contemporary China","description":"With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This book provides a clear, authoritative and up-to-date history of China since 1949, drawing on extensive research to describe and explain the key developments and to dispel the many myths and misconceptions surrounding this twenty-first-century superpower.   In contrast to many commentators who overstate the novelty of the Communist regime, Guiheux emphasizes instead its complex political heritage, highlighting the many continuities it shares with the reformers and revolutionaries of the early twentieth century. At the same time, the ability of China’s authoritarian regime to transform the economy and society is key to understanding its breakneck trajectory of modernization – an ability that, as Guiheux explains, far outweighed the importance and effectiveness of Mao’s utopian vision. Guiheux also aims to ‘de-exoticize’ China. While not on the path of a Western-style modernity, China has experienced the same phenomena that have characterized every historical process of modernization: industrialization, urbanization, bureaucratization and globalization.   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It explores the evolution of working and living conditions in industrialized societies that have reached a certain level of wealth in a few decades, seeking to offer a more nuanced view on the profound changes experienced by the population in their daily lives. While high growth is generally associated with an increase in workers’ standard of living, the high growth seen in China over the last 30 years has also produced situations of precariousness among the working class. This book questions the link between rapid growth and the generalized securitization of the salaried population, which has been assumed in contemporary sociological works, focusing not only on the evolution of labor and life conditions but also on how labor-relation actors and experts perceive the precariousness experienced in the context of high growth.  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