ISBN:
1299759890
,
9781299759893
,
9780745617367
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (282 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding Chinese Society
DDC:
306.095109045
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Romanization and Names; 1 The Study of Chinese Society; 2 Which China? Whose China?; 3 Rural and Urban in China; 4 Individual and Society in China; 5 Chinese Family: Continuity and Change; 6 Power and Revolution: Economic and Political; 7 Power and Revolution: Cultural; 8 Changing Patterns of Social Inequality; 9 The Differentiation of Chinese Society; Notes; Glossary of Chinese Terms; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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