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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... official statistics. The population is many times as big as either. The last full census in 1990 gave a mid-year estimate of 1.134 billion people, and the latest available population estimate1 at time of writing was 1.259 billion. One ...
... officials of the Communist Party, and a heavy apparatus of ideological repression and control. Such a society could be kept stable only by isolating it from alternatives. When this isolation could no longer be maintained, the regimes ...
... official discourse and often still in popular parlance. From 1949 onwards, at every available opportunity, the new rulers of China told themselves and the rest of the people that they lived in a 'new society' which was to become utterly ...
... official claim to have constructed an entirely new society in 1949 (a claim that has in any case been modified in recent years), sociologists can find in China questions of social stability and social change which lie at the core of the ...
... official discourse. Research methods are influenced partly by a prevailing scientistic (or positivistic) philosophy of science, partly by a concern to use scarce resources effectively, and partly by the need not to overstep political ...
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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 | |