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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... result, I hope, remains intelligible, but it cannot do justice to the complexity of empirical materials and their analysis that is now available in the scholarly literature, whether originating from within China or without. I am ...
... results of which are published in English or other western languages. Some Chinese sociologists have decided to pursue academic careers outside China, hold university posts in the United States, Australia or elsewhere, and may move ...
... results. Research topics tend to be chosen with an eye to what the authorities require and permit, especially as sociology was readmitted as a legitimate discipline solely in order to investigate problems facing the society. This does ...
... results which run counter to the interests of the powerful. This is more difficult in China, where this critical task is taken up more often by journalists in the genre of reportage than by. sociologists.12. The upshot of this discussion ...
... results of which could even be identified in the skewed age distribution of the population in subsequent decades, and the proponents of central planning regained the upper hand. A second burst of Maoist populism to continue 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 | |