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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... revolutionary social change in twentieth-century China. The book could not have been written without those students, their enthusiasm and never-ending questions. As I did, they start off knowing almost nothing about China and, as I did ...
... revolutionaries, liberty, equality and fraternity, would become reality for all, notjust ideological disguises for the benefit of a small ruling class. Yet the reality of 'really existing socialist societies' was a rigid and inefficient ...
... revolutionary new way to tackle the intellectual study of social life, stimulated the emergence in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century of the new social science disciplines of economics, political science and sociology. Of these ...
... revolutionary social change, lies at the very heart of sociological thinking. Although there have been major social ... revolutionary social change in the twentieth century, far from it, and in many respects its revolutionary experience ...
Norman Stockman. revolutionary experience has been similar to that of countries such as the former Soviet Union; but it is arguable that China is the largest and most powerful country that has also taken revolutionary transformation ...
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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 | |