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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... 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 years. A similar argument is put forward by Hooper (1992) ...
... relationships between social changes and the expressed aims of the party and regime. As will be seen, these aims have been continually disputed and reinterpreted, both within the party and outside it. None the less, certain general ...
... relationships with sociologists in China and south-east Asia. The issue, however, is not only one of accessibility, but also of the political context in which such sociology is written and may be read. Despite the relative ...
... relationship of individual, group and society in Chinese culture. Are Chinese assumptions about individual and ... relationships and created a new type of Chinese person? Is Chinese society becoming more individualistic? This leads ...
... relationship between 'public' and 'private' realms in contemporary Chinese society? Further. Reading. Preston (1998) provides a critical discussion of the changing place of Pacific Asia in global society. Wong Siu-lun (1979) is a ...
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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 | |