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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... world, summed up in the idea of the Cold War. Decolonization reduced the overt world grasp of the imperial powers, but theorists of development identified continuing asymmetries of economic and political power and labelled them in.
... imperial conquest (as if this cultural westernization would not itself be a kind of conquest). Sociologists and anthropologists were exposed to this problem in an acute form, since they had to decide whether the theories and concepts ...
... imperial China, however, the idea of dynasty contained an entire social theory, based on assumptions about the normality and legitimacy of imperial rule (Loewe 1966). Periods of unity and stability, when imperial authority was generally ...
... imperial China, and the revolutionary succession of modes of production was the orthodoxy of Chinese communism, modernization theory became the orthodoxy of western and especially American sociology, as a sociological theory of history ...
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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 | |