"In the third volume of this popular series, leading experts provide fascinating and unexpected insights into critical issues in today's China. They address such key topics as civil society, consumerism, environmental adversity, ethnic tension, the Internet, legal reform, new media and social networking, nationalist tourism, sex, and popular culture, as well [as] the costs of urban gigantism, to portray the complexity of life in contemporary China--and how, increasingly, it speaks to the everyday experience of Americans."--p. [4] of cover.

Chinese collection.

Introduction : China, the United States, and convulsive cooperation / Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston -- Jousting with monsters : journalists in a rapidly changing China / David Bandurski -- Youth culture in China : idols, sex, and the Internet / Jonathan S. Noble -- Dismantling the socialist welfare state : the rise of civil society in China / Jessica C. Teets -- Mutually assured destruction or dependence? : U.S. and Chinese perspectives on China's military development / Andrew S. Erickson -- China's environmental tipping point / Alex L. Wang -- China's historic urbanization : explosive and challenging / Timothy B. Weston -- The worlds of China's intellectuals / Timothy Cheek -- Why does China fear the Internet? / Susan D. Blum -- Producing exemplary consumers : tourism and leisure culture in China's nation-building project / Travis Klingberg and Tim Oakes -- Professionals and populists : the paradoxes of China's legal reforms / Benjamin L. Liebman -- The decriminalization and depathologization of homosexuality in China / Wenqing Kang -- The evolution of Chinese authoritarianism : lessons from the "Arab Spring" / Orion A. Lewis -- Culture industry, power, and the spectacle of China's "Confucius Institutes" / Lionel M. Jensen -- Tensions and violence in China's minority regions / Katherine Palmer Kaup -- An unharmonious society : foreign reporting in China / Gady Epstein -- Afterword : what future for human rights dialogues? / John Kamm.