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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... further reading and in the full bibliography. They will quickly discover what should in any case be obvious, that I have been forced to simplify and condense the carefully and subtly wrought books and articles of many scholars into ...
... further and deeper than even the USSR. Certainly that would have been the claim of some of its leaders, who came (with whatever justification) to identify the USSR as just another capitalist society. China specialists in the West ...
... further demonstration of the inevitability of capitalism. And it would be easy to interpret any other 'failures' of the CCP's revolutionary project (for example, to abolish all of the main inequalities between men and women) as a ...
... further in a moment. The other stemmed from the fact that, as a discipline laying claim to the scientific study of social structure and the dynamics of social change, sociology appeared to be in direct competition with Marxism, the ...
... further attention to the potential tension between sociology and Marxism (Wong Siulun 1979: 109). While the academic discipline called 'sociology' was banned as bourgeois, the study of Chinese society continued in other forms. 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 | |