Norman Stockman

Understanding Chinese Society (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745678160
• Artikelnr.: 39175180

Autorenporträt

Norman Stockman is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Aberdeen.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements vi
Note on Romanization and Names ix
1 The Study of Chinese Society 1
2 Which China? Whose China? 23
3 Rural and Urban in China 45
4 Individual and Society in China 69
5 Chinese Family: Continuity and Change 94
6 Power and Revolution: Economic and Political 120
7 Power and Revolution: Cultural 149
8 Changing Patterns of Social Inequality 177
9 The Differentiation of Chinese Society 203
Notes 228
Glossary of Chinese Terms 236
Bibliography 239
Index 264

Rezensionen

"Stockman examines the world's most populous nation beginning withpre-revolutionary times, and turns his focus on today's rapidlymodernizing society. Especial attention is paid to the fate ofcultural traditions in the industrial and post-industrial world."Reference and Research Book News

"Textbooks on China are readily available, but this book makesits mark by integrating sociological theories with theinvestigation of social change in China ... Stockman has an abilityto combine various works into a coherent discussion of a specifictopic ... The issues Stockman addresses will be ones that intereststudents in Western universities." The China Journal

"A book for readers who may not have a detailed and complexunderstanding of Chinese history." Political Studies

"Norman Stockman's book fills the gap between undergraduatesociology textbooks, which pay little attention to China, and aspecialist research literature on China, which is ofteninaccessible to students." Times Higher EducationSupplement

"A valuable base work offering important background informationfor any further research and more detailed study of contemporaryChinese society. Moreover, for all its analytical and theoreticalimport, Understanding Chinese Society never loses itsaccessibility. Though intended primarily for sociology students, itin fact can also be a useful reference book for any studentstudying modern and/or contemporary Chinese politics" HistoryNow

"This is a book that one can recommend to students with thecertainty that they will not be led astray by it in any importantrespect." Times Higher Education Supplement