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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... aspects they can recognize, and go through a stage in which all societies appear essentially the same, variations on a set of common themes. There is truth in both of these extreme positions, and we continue to oscillate between them ...
... 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 should like to thank also the committee and members of the ...
... aspects of social life. This is not easily accessible to the non-specialist, in a number of respects. First, it may not be easy to get hold of, for it will be held only by specialist libraries and mentioned only in specialist review ...
... aspects of culture. It would be foolish to rule out the possibility of such a course of history or to write about China, as many did write about the former Soviet Union, as if its presently existing institutional framework were destined ...
... aspects of sociology also came into consideration. The first, that sociology was a foreign import, a form of cultural imperialism, will be explored further in a moment. The other stemmed from the fact that, as a discipline laying claim ...
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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 | |