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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... discussed under such typical rubrics as rural development or socialist industrialization. In recent years, China has also appeared in discussions of post-socialism, as a case of transition to a more market-led economy, albeit still ...
... discussed later in this book. It is worth pointing out, however, that such an attempt to 'indigenize' sociology is by no means unusual in developing societies.1O Some contributors to the debate over sinification also looked fon/vard to ...
... discussed above, as well as political censorship. Increasing communication and exchange of personnel with the West are gradually easing some of these constraints, though the direction of change is not all one way. Political control over ...
... discussed in western historical sociology (Schluchter 1981), though has also been subjected to criticism from a variety of perspectives.3 A distinctively sociological approach to the issue of 'orientalism' has been taken by Jack Goody.4 ...
... discussed in detail here (Harrison 1988). Most such theories posit a basic distinction between two forms of society, the 'traditional' and the 'modern'. Traditional society, as the name implies, rested on the passing on from generation ...
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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 | |