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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... economic, political and strategic systems has made its impact increasingly felt in all these respects. Similar processes of globalization are affecting many other societies, even in the same region, but size determines that we will pay ...
... economic prominence first of Japan and then of the 'newly industrialized countries' or 'NlCs', and especially the 'four little tigers' of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea. Once China, too, 'opened its doors' to the world ...
... economic inefficiency, loss of self-confidence of the ruling Communist elites, and forfeiture of any legitimacy they ... economy, a monopolization of power and privilege by the officials of the Communist Party, and a heavy apparatus of ...
... economic resources are still predominantly state- or collectively-owned, despite a large and growing private ... economy will turn out to be. It has already survived powerful challenges, most notably from the movements of popular protest ...
... economic. reforms. (K. Chan. 1994). All. of. these. substantive issues will be taken up in more detail later in this book;4 What I am stressing here is that, even While disputing the regime's official claim to have constructed an entirely ...
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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 | |