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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... especially Sheng Xuewen of the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Ding Jinhong of the Institute of Population Research, East China Normal University. Both of them patiently explained to me many aspects of ...
... especially but not exclusively those who work outside China, adopt the custom of placing their family name after their personal name in their publications, name-cards, and so on. For example, BIAN Yanjie now publishes in English under ...
... especially on sociological and anthropological investigations. It is based on the conviction that there are good reasons for incorporating China more fully into the mainstream of these disciplines. In the next sections of this chapter ...
... especially the 'four little tigers' of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea. Once China, too, 'opened its doors' to the world, the stage was set for a variety of future scenarios in which the 'East' figures as the new powerhouse ...
... especially radical or revolutionary social change, lies at the very heart of sociological thinking. Although there have been major social changes in all societies in the world in the twentieth century, China must have a special place in ...
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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 | |