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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... chapter 4). There was also a postal system for transcribing place-names: Beijing (pinyin) is the same city as Peking (postal). Cantonese names and place-names are often transcribed to represent the different pronunciation of Cantonese ...
... good reasons for incorporating China more fully into the mainstream of these disciplines. In the next sections of this chapter, some of these reasons will be briefly reviewed. A fifth of the world's population cannot be ignored The.
... chapter 4, the main elements of this essentially Confucian tradition will be outlined. However, some Chinese scholars at the end of the nineteenth century, including Yan Fu and Liang Qichao, developed a strong interest in European and ...
... chapter 7. In general terms, this project of cultural revolution rested on a Marxist interpretation of culture as the expression of the dominant class. Cultural beliefs and hierarchies both stem from and reinforce the economic and ...
... chapter. Sociology is practised in Chinese places such as Hong Kong11 and Taiwan and, for reasons deriving from British colonialism and American foreign policy, is more likely than that from the PRC to be published in English and become ...
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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 | |