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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... considerable degree, has joined the growing globalization of society. Teaching and research in the social sciences are adapting to these new conditions. For a long time, China could appear on the curricula or the research agenda only in ...
... considerable, covering a wide range of empirical research areas as well as theoretical discussions. A number of sociology journals are now published and several hundred monographs in various areas of sociology have appeared in print ...
... considerable academic discussion on the significance of the 'massacre' (or whatever one calls it, the term chosen symbolically revealing the political stance of the speaker) for social scientific interpretation of Chinese society ...
... considerable efforts to find evidence for these sprouts as early as the Ming dynasty. The importance of correctly assessing the pre-revolutionary mode of production in China was that it provided doctrinal justification for the building ...
... Considerable dislocation and widespread famine ensued, the results of which could even be identified in the skewed age distribution of the population in subsequent decades, and the proponents of central planning regained the upper hand ...
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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 | |