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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... criticized for 'taking the capitalist road'. The Maoist faction, with its centre in the Shanghai 'Gang of Four', retained control until 1976, when Mao died and his adherents were overthrown. Since 1978, when a major programme of ...
... critics of market socialism have been much weakened, they have not been eliminated, and adherents of both Maoism and of a planned economy can use Marxist categories to argue that the present economic line is tantamount to the ...
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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 | |