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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... forces could in principle hope and struggle for liberation from those social forces. This opposition, between a functionalist (or 'positivist') perspective with an interest in the conditions of social stability and a critical ...
... forces in the Chinese state, Cohen points to what he sees as similarities and continuities over the span of the last hundred years. A similar argument is put forward by Hooper (1992), who argues that continuity from the past is often ...
... forces which have been responsible for both continuity and change, giving full weight to the claims and reality of revolutionary transformation promoted by the Communist Party and regime, but without assuming in advance that Communist ...
... force the 'democracy movement' in and around Tiananmen Square, gave rise to a volteface in the journalistic approach to the Chinese economic reforms and their supposed architect Deng Xiaoping, and also to considerable academic ...
... forces of production are developed and class antagonisms intensified, before socialism comes on the agenda. Chinese Marxism therefore had to identify elements of capitalism in China before the establishment of the PRC; for some it was ...
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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 | |