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Understanding Chinese Society

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1736-7
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280 pages
August 2000, Polity
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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

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