Gail Hershatter
Examined studies of sociologists:
Ann Anagost
Examined studies of sociologists:
Lisa Rofel
Examined studies of sociologists:
Questions
2. What do think the author meant when he stated that Wen Tiejun, a well known rural expert stated that there is a lack of "healthy social force" among the middle class - the political economic and cultural elites to push for American liberal style politics because they were afraid of illegal income. Yet it is known that there is high corruption within the media.
3. How does the commercialization reinforce the reconfigured power relation?
Wen Tiejun, a well-known rural expert, provided a lucid explication of this revealing truth when he stated that there is a lack of a “healthy social force” among the “middle class”—the political, economic, and cultural elites—to push for American-style liberal democratic politics, because a majority among them have problems with illegal income. That is, if liberal democracy entails a relatively open system of intra-elite bargaining, the common fear is that the implementation of such a system necessarily involves the exposure of systematic corruption among the elites. The strengthening of one-party rule thus becomes the only self-serving option for the alliance of political, economic, and cultural elites (p.83)