Overview
- Explains the behaviors of Chinese people from a sociological perspective
- Presents the author’s attempt to establish a unique sociological system that shares similarities with Western theory
- Highlights a “pre-history” of Chinese-specific psychologies and behaviors before globalization and Internet era
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Another Perspective: Some Thoughts on Localization, Research Approaches, and Methodology
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Research and Discussion of Local Concepts
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Local Empirical Research and Its Problems
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An Attempt to Establish a Local Theoretical Framework
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About this book
In particular, the book explores the relationship between Chinese people’s behaviors and China’s social and cultural structure. It puts forward a theoretical framework for the analysis of Chinese social behaviors, which is based on the realistic aspects of Chinese people’s day-to-day-lives. The book also concludes that any attempt to study Chinese psychologies and behaviors should “seek the constant among the changes, or at least those aspects that are hardest to change” and investigate the context and background, which can provide a point of departure for current and future research.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
His main research field is the Chinese Behavior Patterns and Chinese Society, and he put forward a series of indigenous analysis framework, concept, pattern, and ideas. Representative works include Zhai, Xuewei collection, including in The Principles of Chinese Guanxi (Peking University Press, 2011), Face Favor and reproduction of power (second edition) (Peking University Press, 2013), Perspectives on Chinese Face - the formalism of the psychological motives and social representation (Peking University press, 2011), The Chinese Representation in Everyday Life: A Sociological Study of Face and Favor (Nanjing University Press, 2016), and other monographs, Daily Authority in Chinese Society (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2004), etc., other papers in journal of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, sociology research, Society, Indigenous Psychological Research (Taiwan), the Oriental culture (Japan), and other influential academic journals in China's sociology, social psychology, management and cultural communication.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Logic of Chinese Behaviors
Authors: Xuewei Zhai
Translated by: Matt Turner, Haiying Weng
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2464-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: SDX Joint Publishing 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2463-7Published: 21 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2466-8Published: 22 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-2464-4Published: 20 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 253
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology of Culture