Understanding Chinese SocietyISBN: 978-0-7456-1736-7
Paperback
280 pages
August 2000, Polity
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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.