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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... institutions. Social science textbooks often ignored China altogether. Libraries outside the realms of sinology or international relations held few books on China, partly because there were few published. Most students could go through ...
... institutional framework were destined to last into the indefinite future. Yet, until it ceases to be the case, it does remain the case that the CCP has managed to adapt economically, politically and culturally to conditions which proved ...
... institutions and of structures of power and inequality — is precisely what is meant by the word 'revolution' (Krejci 1994: 7). China is not the only example of revolutionary social change in the twentieth century, far from it, and in ...
... institutional areas of twentiethcentury Chinese society. It will also try to identify the main factors and forces which have been responsible for both continuity and change, giving full weight to the claims and reality of revolutionary ...
... institutions, explanations that none the less hold out the possibility (in principle) of emancipation. In particular, emphasis will be placed on the difficulty of transforming society against the opposition of powerful social interests ...
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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 | |