Understanding Chinese SocietyJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013年7月8日 - 280 頁 This new book provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the main features of Chinese society. Drawing on a wealth of material, the author offers a fresh understanding of a unique society that has undergone continuous transformation and upheaval throughout the twentieth century. Understanding Chinese Society looks in all its richness at the society with the largest population on earth. In order to explore long-term change and continuity, the book examines China from pre-revolutionary times to today's rapidly modernising society, although the focus is on recent change. Particular attention is paid to China's cultural traditions and hierarchical relationships in familial and wider social settings, and their fate in the modern world. Successive chapters investigate changes in the relations of rural and urban sectors of society; in the structure of families; in political and economic power; in cultural hegemony, education and the media; and in patterns of social inequality. A final chapter asks whether Chinese society is becoming more complex and differentiated in the course of modernisation and considers recent debates on the growth of civil society and democratisation. This book will be indispensable for anyone studying Chinese society, Asian societies and comparative sociology. |
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... University of Southern California, whom I happened to meet in Beijing in 1987 when studying Chinese language at Beijing Normal University. He was interested at that time in street traders, and we spent some time together eating melon at ...
... University. Both of them patiently explained to me many aspects of everyday life in China as well as the workings of social processes, and Sheng Xuewen opened up the possibility for one of my most fruitful visits to China in 1992. I ...
... University of Sussex in July 1996, generously sponsored by Gordon White, whose death in 1998 sadly robbed the China social science community of one of its most imaginative researchers. This fellowship also gave me the opportunity for ...
... universities have well-developed Asian Studies programmes with a strong emphasis on China. There is a rapid growth in the publication of monograph and periodical literature on China in the social sciences. Yet China still appears to ...
... universities, especially those run by western missionaries, established courses and departments of sociology, beginning with St John's University in Shanghai in 1906, and many students also went abroad to study, gaining sociology ...
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Rural and Urban in China | |
Individual and Society in China | |
Continuity and Change | |
Economic and Political | |
Cultural | |
Changing Patterns of Social Inequality | |
The Differentiation of Chinese Society | |