{"id":3764,"date":"2012-11-16T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2012-11-16T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:07:35","slug":"changing-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2012\/11\/16\/changing-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3765\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/togawanderings\/6245627371\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3765\" title=\"Occupy Hong Kong banner by Thomas Galvez via flickr.com\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2012\/11\/6245627371_6b1ef12f97-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Occupy Hong Kong banner by Thomas Galvez via flickr.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2012\/11\/6245627371_6b1ef12f97-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2012\/11\/6245627371_6b1ef12f97-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2012\/11\/6245627371_6b1ef12f97-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Occupy Hong Kong banner by Thomas Galvez via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China is an expanding country, trying to find where it fits in the social and economic framework of powerful nations. Conversely, its people are trying to find where they fit in the Chinese social structure. As they prepare for a change in political leadership, China is also faced with they rise of the individual. In an article for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/chinas-new-leaders-face-the-rise-of-the-individual\/1540296.html\">Voice of America<\/a>, Shannon Van Sant interviewed UC Irvine sociologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.uci.edu\/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5098\">Wang Feng<\/a> about this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Much like in many areas in the Middle East, Europe, and North America, parts of China have recently seen a surge of protests and \u201cmass incidents.\u201d \u00a0Feng describes this as \u201cdirectly linked to the growth of China\u2019s middle class.\u201d \u00a0While incomes in China increase, Feng explains, the expectations Chinese citizens have of individual rights and pursuits grow too. Everything from land ownership to corruption and taxation is now a subject of contestation.<\/p>\n<p>These protests put the Chinese government in an awkward predicament. \u00a0Once infamous for its stifling of public activism, the state must react to these protests with the eyes of the world upon them. So far, it has tried to clamp down on the instigators but, in some cases, have also given in to the protestor\u2019s demands. According to Dr. Feng, Chinese society has already changed&#8212;the government will \u201cneed to come in to really implement these bold reforms. Otherwise, well, time is running out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is an expanding country, trying to find where it fits in the social and economic framework of powerful nations. Conversely, its people are trying to find where they fit in the Chinese social structure. As they prepare for a change in political leadership, China is also faced with they rise of the individual. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[224,781,45],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-china","tag-protest","tag-social-movements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3767,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}