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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... political scientist from the University of Southern California, whom I happened to meet in Beijing in 1987 when studying Chinese language at Beijing Normal University. He was interested at that time in street traders, and we spent some ...
... political economies, of industrialized and developing societies, of private and public spheres and sectors, which ... Politicians and electors, managers and workers, tourists and consumers, teachers and students, all find themselves in a ...
... political science without encountering China. In the English-speaking world (which must provide the main readership for this book), and elsewhere too, this situation is changing. In North America, Britain and Australasia, national ...
... political and social revolution. Alternatively, China may be treated primarily as a developing society, and discussed under such typical rubrics as rural development or socialist industrialization. In recent years, China has also ...
... political and strategic systems has made its impact increasingly felt in all these respects. Similar processes of globalization are affecting many other societies, even in the same region, but size determines that we will pay more ...
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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 | |