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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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 51 筆
... maintained, the regimes collapsed. What followed was a headlong rush towards electoral politics and party pluralism to replace the monopoly of the Communist Party over state power, and towards privatization and marketization of the ...
... maintained intact. Others maintained that Chinese culture was irretrievably moribund, and that only complete 'westernization' could enable China to rebuild its power and stave off imperial conquest (as if this cultural westernization ...
... maintained a detached or critical stance, social scientific writing on China (as elsewhere) has sometimes had in common with journalism a tendency to respond to short-term shifts in the political agenda. I have already mentioned the ...
... maintained or changed? Chapter 9, finally, raises some general questions concerning the overall structure of Chinese society at the turn of the century. Is it becoming more pluralistic and differentiated? Is there emerging a segregation ...
... maintain unity and prosperity, a legitimacy resting on the perpetuation of an ancient form of government with its roots in a golden age which, though it could never be entirely reborn, could at least serve as a model to be aspired to ...
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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 | |