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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... social studies of China. On one walk he prompted me to practice my Chinese by making inquiries about booking a room at a nearby hotel catering (as it turned out) exclusively for Chinese people, an incident that provoked more merriment ...
... Social Sciences, and Ding Jinhong of the Institute of Population Research, East China Normal University. Both of them patiently explained to me many aspects of everyday life in China as well as the workings of social processes, and ...
... social science and social thought are having to rethink and regroup even more than in previous decades. In few spheres is this rethinking more active than in the case of China. For the first decades of the People's Republic, relations ...
... Social science textbooks often ignored China altogether. Libraries outside the realms of sinology or international ... social sciences. Yet China still appears to occupy a place on the margins of the social scientific consciousness. For ...
... social revolution. Alternatively, China may be treated primarily as a developing society, and discussed under such typical rubrics as rural development or socialist industrialization. In recent years, China has also appeared in ...
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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 | |