Understanding Chinese Society
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Understanding Chinese Society

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Understanding Chinese Society

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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 though social issues including:



  • What are the key features of the family and marriage institutions in China?



  • How are women and men faring differently in Chinese society today?



  • How are minorities faring in China?



  • How does the education system differentiate Chinese society?



  • How are religion and cultural traditions expressed?

Including handy pedagogical features such as a chronology of the People's Republic of China, further reading suggestions, and related novels and films, Understanding Chinese Society is suitable for anyone studying Chinese Culture and Society, Chinese Studies and Asian sociology.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
ISBN
9781317422952
Edition
2
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Ethnic Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. List of contributors
  8. 1. Introduction
  9. 2. Foundations of Chinese identity: place, past and culture
  10. 3. Rituals and the life cycle
  11. 4. Family and marriage
  12. 5. Gender and sexuality
  13. 6. Contested ground: community and neighbourhood
  14. 7. Education
  15. 8. Status and hierarchy
  16. 9. Ethnic minorities
  17. 10. Transformation of work in post-Mao China
  18. 11. Urbanization and its impact in China
  19. 12. Mass media in China
  20. 13. Environmental protection
  21. 14. Civil society in a birdcage
  22. 15. Government and changing stateā€“society relations
  23. Chronology of the Peopleā€™s Republic of China
  24. Index