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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... periods. They ask different questions, rely on different sources, read different books, and often attend different conferences.' Taking as his theme the nature of reform projects in different historical periods, and the relationship ...
... period. of. the. Seventh. Five-Year. Plan. (1986—90),. including. the. projected requirements of academies of science, Party Schools, journalism and publishing, administrative departments, large enterprises and educational institutions, and ...
... period, some significant research was carried out by missionary-sociologists and others, and their writings are still often referred to. Since then, for much of the period up to the death of Mao, China was simply inaccessible to western ...
... period of economic reforms? Chapter 7 continues the theme of the restructuring of social power in the study of cultural change, cultural continuity and cultural revolution. The Communist Party attempted to remodel Chinese culture ...
... periods than elsewhere, and where (it has been argued) the tradition of dead generations weighs heavier on the minds of the living. For many, both in China and outside it, this is the core of China's predicament: that its long 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 | |