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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... authorities have relaxed the implementation of household registration regulations and since rural people have had both the incentive and the freedom to look for work in the cities. The key point of change here is not 1949 but rather ...
... authorities require and permit, especially as sociology was readmitted as a legitimate discipline solely in order to investigate problems facing the society. This does have the advantage that approved research projects should gain the ...
... authority was generally recognized by the whole population, when food was plentiful and the people satisfied, when the borders of the empire were secure and the barbarians beyond the walls were subdued, were treated as the normal state ...
... authorities have sometimes felt under threat from such debate and banned discussion of the Asiatic mode. The themes of the Asiatic mode, and particularly the emphasis on state control of irrigation and river control as the basis of ...
... authority from having 'always been done that way'. Somehow, within the interstices of this traditional society, arose the idea that things could be done differently. 'Modernity' signifies a radical break with tradition, a casting off of ...
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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 | |