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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... regime on Taiwan, and diplomatic links with the Communist People's Republic were shaky. The regime closed down most trade relations with the outside world and abolished inward investment. The world's media had little access to ...
... regimes ruled by communist parties, most notably the Soviet Union and its satellites in eastern and central Europe, collapsed from within under the burdens of economic inefficiency, loss of self-confidence of the ruling Communist elites ...
... regime also remains publicly committed to the construction of a socialist society, albeit one with distinctively 'Chinese characteristics', and to the leading role of the Communist Party and to the truth of Marxism—Leninism as adapted ...
... regime and the installation of a new one committed to drastic reconstruction of social institutions and of structures of power and inequality — is precisely what is meant by the word 'revolution' (Krejci 1994: 7). China is not the only ...
... regime had made enormous changes to gender relations, but after living in China for a while it became clear to her that she 'had seriously overestimated the extent of change and seriously underestimated the continuities from the past ...
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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 | |