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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... reform projects in different historical periods, and the relationship between centralizing and decentralizing forces in the Chinese state, Cohen points to what he sees as similarities and continuities over the span of the last hundred ...
... reforms. (K. Chan. 1994). All. of. these. substantive issues will be taken up in more detail later in this book;4 What I am stressing here is that, even While disputing the regime's official claim to have constructed an entirely new society ...
... reforms in a similar vein, as a further demonstration of the inevitability of capitalism. And it would be easy to interpret any other 'failures' of the CCP's revolutionary project (for example, to abolish all of the main inequalities ...
... reforms and their supposed architect Deng Xiaoping, and also to considerable academic discussion on the significance of the 'massacre' (or whatever one calls it, the term chosen symbolically revealing the political stance of the speaker) ...
... 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 through control over the ...
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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 | |