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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... relations between China and the outside world were sparse. Few foreigners had been to China or knew much about it. China after 1949 had been transformed from a weak and divided country, prey to western and Japanese imperialism ...
... relations held few books on China, partly because there were few published. Most students could go through degree programmes in sociology, anthropology, economics or political science without encountering China. In the English-speaking ...
... relation to studies of relatively small societies, such as the Nuer. None the less, the size of China's population is now important in bringing the society to the attention of social scientists, since the incorporation of China into ...
... 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' (p. 92), issues which were taken up ...
... relation of the PRC to Chinese communities elsewhere will be taken up in the next chapter. Sociology is practised in Chinese places such as Hong Kong11 and Taiwan and, for reasons deriving from British colonialism and American foreign ...
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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 | |