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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... major contributions to analysis and argument, and I hope that readers will be encouraged to follow up the leads provided in my suggestions for further reading and in the full bibliography. They will quickly discover what should in any ...
... major scale, many residents of affluent industrialized countries now possess consumer items made in China, and some even possess some pension fund or personal investment holdings in the Chinese economy. China news appears regularly in ...
... major textbooks of sociology, for example, China appears, if at all, under certain specific headings, such as family life, population growth and control, or political and social revolution. Alternatively, China may be treated primarily ...
... Major theoretical arguments in sociology and anthropology have often been carried on in relation to studies of relatively small societies, such as the Nuer. None the less, the size of China's population is now important in bringing the ...
... major 'player' in the various power games that make up the global system. China has indeed become in recent years a centre of increased economic and strategic power, and this is not a negligible cause of increased sociological interest ...
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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 | |