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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Norman Stockman. Acknowledgements. When people ask me how as a rogue sociologist I became interested in China, I tell them a rambling, picaresque story, if they can be bothered to listen. Among the cast of characters is Stan Rosen, a ...
... became clear to her that she 'had seriously overestimated the extent of change and seriously underestimated the continuities from the past' (p. 92), issues which were taken up systematically by later research. A related line of thought ...
... became more common in the discourse of younger intellectuals and students during the 1910s, when they were popularized by the magazine New Youth, and particularly after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. The founding of the Chinese ...
... became the new orthodoxy, at first within the party and then, from 1949, within the People's Republic as a whole, although this did not prevent conflicts between alternative interpretations of the implications of Marxism for Chinese ...
... became the orthodoxy of western and especially American sociology, as a sociological theory of history in general and of Chinese history in particular. Somewhat ironically, the concept of modernization is now also fundamental to the new ...
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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 | |