ISBN:
9781138917392
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (251 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding Chinese Society
DDC:
306.0951
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertaken not only of China's family patterns, education system, status, hierarchy, and ethnic diversity, but also of China's mass media, legal system and social control, work, and cultural expression. As well as being thoroughly updated and revised throughout, this edition offers new chapters on urbanization, the environment, and civil society in China.A team of international experts guide students thoug
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Foundations of Chinese identity: place, past and culture; Geography: placing 'China'; Chinese traditions: Confucianism and beyond; Histories of China; Self, community and nation in the early twentieth century; New revolutionary communities after 1949; Modernisation, globalisation and the re-imagining of China; 3. Rituals and the life cycle; Birth and childhood; Entry into adulthood; Weddings; Years of calamity; Retirement and old age
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Death and memorial celebrationsConclusion; 4. Family and marriage; Family structure; Fertility transition; Marriage; Marriage squeeze; Marital breakdown; Conclusion; 5. Gender and sexuality; Historical context of gender and sexuality; Gender norm transformation in pre-1949 China; Gender and work in post-1949 China; Sexuality in contemporary China; Sex and economy; Homosexuality; Conclusion; 6. Contested ground: community and neighbourhood; Grassroots society in Mao's China; The changing rural community; State interventions; The changing urban neighbourhood; New neighbourhood space
Description / Table of Contents:
Neighbourhood-orientated reformsConclusion; 7. Education; A brief history; Primary and secondary schools in today's China; The rural-urban divide; Education and ethnic minority groups; China's higher education; Conclusion; 8. Status and hierarchy; Hierarchies in Mao's China; Hierarchies in post-Mao China; Conclusion; Glossary; 9. Ethnic minorities; What is an ethnic minority?; Population; The Han and the ethnic minoritie; The ethnic minorities: policy and reality; The economy; Some aspects of culture; Main problem areas; Conclusion; Glossary of terms; List of abbreviations
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10. Transformation of work in post-Mao ChinaThe organization of work under Mao; Highlights of post-Mao transformations; Organizational implications of economic institutional change; Conclusion; Glossary; 11. Urbanization and its impact in China; The urbanization drive in China; Injustice to migrants: Social and political exclusion; Land-centred urbanization and government dependency on land revenue; The emergence of ghost cities; Conclusion; 12. Mass media in China; Mass media in Mao's era; Mass media during the reform era; More refined and sophisticated management from the Partystate
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MarketizationConglomeration; Capitalization; Social and political implications; Conclusion; 13. Environmental protection; Environmental (non-)protection in the Mao era; The state of national environmental governance; Limits of top-down environmentalism; Nascent green activism; Globalizing environmentalism; Some greening of the Chinese states; Conclusion; 14. Civil society in a birdcage; Chinese society before the end of totalitarianism; Market transition and the rise of the middle class; Post-1978 social organizations; The party-state as the 'birdcage' of social organizations
Description / Table of Contents:
Social movements: Bottom-up challenge to the state?
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
