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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... century China. The book could not have been written without those students, their enthusiasm and never-ending questions. As I did, they start off knowing almost nothing about China and, as I did, they assume that almost everything about ...
... century who invented it. This is used in most writings published before the 1970s, and is still used by some historians, as well as in English-language texts produced in Taiwan. Quotations and bibliographical items therefore sometimes ...
... centuries has until recently provided the background to contemporary assumptions about the world system. The rise of the Soviet Union and its satellites in the middle part of the century generated a bi-polar view of the world, summed up ...
... Century (Linder 1986) or Pacific Destiny. (Elegant. 1990). Concepts. such. as. 'the. Pacific. Rim',. 'Pacific. Asia'. or 'Asia-Pacific' are widely used in journalistic as well as social scientific commentary on the restructuring of the ...
... the beginning of the twenty-first century. Social. stability,. social. change. and. revolution. The foregoing paragraphs offer some explanation for the fact that China attracts increasing interest in recent years, and go some.
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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 | |