Contemporary China
Contemporary China

Author: Tamara Jacka

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-09-30

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1107292298

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China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ethnicity, labour, religion, education, class and rural/urban inequalities. It considers China's imperial past, the social and institutional legacies of the Maoist era, and the momentous forces shaping it in the present. It also emphasises diversity and multiplicity, encouraging readers to consider new perspectives and rethink Western stereotypes about China and its people. Real-life case studies illustrate the key features of social relations and change in China. Definitions of key terms, discussion questions and lists of further reading help consolidate learning. Including full-colour maps and photographs, this book offers remarkable insight into Chinese society and social change.

A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America
A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America

Author: Haihui Zhang

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9780924304729

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A vital resource for non-Asia specialists in the fields of history, literature, music, economics, sociology, and art looking for a comparative or world-historical perspective on particular questions, including the nature of early modernity, the development of science, or recent trends in the study of early and medieval arts and letters.

Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China
Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China

Author: Victor Falkenheim

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0892640669

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Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China began with two symposia held in 1977 and 1978. The first, a workshop on “The Pursuit of Interest in China,” was held in August 1977 at the University of Michigan, and was organized by Michel Oksenberg and Richard Baum. It was supported by a grant from the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, using funds provided by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Its principal goal was to use detailed case studies to explore the relevance of interest group approaches to the study of Chinese politics. The second, a panel organized by the editor for the 1978 Chicago meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, sought to apply participatory approaches to the role of social groups in the Chinese political process. The striking degree of overlap in the focus, methodology, and participants in both meetings suggested to a number of the paper writers that there was a need for a more eclectic approach which would focus simultaneously on individual and group actors. The recognition that a volume based on such an approach might serve the needs of students and scholars seeking to examine the dynamics of informal influence and power in China was the stimulus for publishing the studies presented here in book form. [ix]

Contemporary Chinese Studies Series
Contemporary Chinese Studies Series

Author: Ruoyun Bai

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0774826339

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In late 1995, the drama Heaven Above (Cangtian zaishang) debuted on Chinese TV. Featuring a villainous high-ranking government official, it was the first in a series of wildly popular corruption dramas that riveted the nation. Staging Corruption looks at the rise, fall, and reincarnation of corruption dramas and the ways in which they express the collective dreams and nightmares of China in the market-reform era. It also considers how these dramas - as products of the interplay between television stations, production companies, media regulation, and political censorship - unveil complicated relationships between power, media, and society. This book will be essential reading for those following China's ongoing struggles with the highly volatile socio-political issue of corruption.

Contemporary Chinese Studies
Contemporary Chinese Studies

Author: Peipei Qiu

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0774825464

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Chinese Comfort Women is the first English-language book featuring accounts of the “comfort station” experiences of women from Mainland China, forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War. Through personal narratives from twelve survivors, this book reveals the unfathomable atrocities committed against women during the war and correlates the proliferation of “comfort stations” with the progression of Japan’s military offensive. Drawing on investigative reports, local histories, and witness testimony, Chinese Comfort Women puts a human face on China’s war experience and on the injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of Chinese women.

Modern Chinese Parts of Speech
Modern Chinese Parts of Speech

Author: Guo Rui

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1351269143

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Classification of parts of speech in Chinese is tough due to the lack of morphological differences, and thus is short of in-depth investigation and exploration. Based on the analysis and research of nearly 40,000 Chinese characters, this book elaborates on the system of Chinese parts of speech and proposes a set of criteria on their classification, contributing to relevant theoretical and methodological studies. To begin with, it examines the common characteristics and internal hierarchies of parts of speech, as well as the relationship between grammatical functions and parts of speech in modern Chinese. Then it puts forward the criteria on the classification of Chinese parts of speech, with a descriptive explanation of around 20 parts of speech. Besides, it illustrates the statistical studies on Chinese parts of speech, offering data support and corpus verification to the criteria. Also, it analyses the system of Chinese parts of speech from the perspective of typology. Specifically, it elucidates the correspondence between syntactic positions and parts of speech, functional differentiation of Chinese word items, etc. This book will be a valuable reference to researchers and students in Chinese linguistics. Learners of Chinese will also be attracted by it.

Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China
Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China

Author: Geng Song

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9004264914

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In Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird offer an account of Chinese masculinities in media discourse and everyday life, covering masculinities on television, in lifestyle magazines, in cyberspace, at work, at leisure, and at home. No other work covers the forms and practices of men and masculinities in contemporary China so comprehensively. Through carefully exploring the global, regional and local influences on men and representations of men in postmillennial China, Song and Hird show that Chinese masculinity is anything but monolithic. They reveal a complex, shifting plurality of men and masculinities—from stay-at-home internet geeks to karaoke-singing, relationship-building businessmen—which contest and consolidate “conventional” notions of masculinity in multiple ways.

God is not Dead
God is not Dead

Author: Linshan Qin

Publisher: Bouden House

Published: 2023-08-16

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Contemporary Chinese churches show an extreme privatization tendency, advocating that religion is a private affair and has nothing to do with politics. So Christians are only about the salvation of their own personal souls, and they do not care about all public affairs. In order to escape the harsh reality, not hesitate to distort the true principle of separation of church and state, and even frequently bring out the words of Jesus "God belongs to God and Caesar belongs to Caesar" to prove that religion must draw a clear line with politics, and do not interfere with each other. On the other hand, it is also wrong for the church as a religious organization directly gets involved in the elections or gives the churchgoers pressure to vote for the church's favored candidate. The church is not supposed to be a tool for politicians' elections but for the spiritual salvation of the people, including churchgoers or not churchgoers, regardless of their political attitudes. Although the Bible can interpret a variety of different theological themes, political theology, peace theology, human rights theology, liberation theology, women's theology, ecological theology, etc., it will always be for the liberation of the victims, the oppressed and the criticism of the murderer of suffering! For the righteousness of the oppressed and suffering people is the most indispensable part of Christians' love for their neighbors and eventually for society as a whole! Is the only evidence of a Christian's love for God.

Chinese Ibsenism
Chinese Ibsenism

Author: Kwok-kan Tam

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 981136303X

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This book is a study of the relation between theatre art and ideology in the Chinese experimentations with new selfhood as a result of Ibsen’s impact. It also explores Ibsenian notions of self, women and gender in China and provides an illuminating study of Chinese theatre as a public sphere in the dissemination of radical ideas. Ibsen is the major source of modern Chinese selfhood which carries notions of personal and social liberation and has exerted great impacts on Chinese revolutions since the beginning of the twentieth century. Ibsen’s idea of the self as an individual has led to various experimentations in theatre, film and fiction to project new notions of selfhood, in particular women’s selfhood, throughout the history of modern China. Even today, China is experimenting with Ibsen’s notions of gender, power, individualism and self. Kwok-kan Tam is Chair Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Social Science at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He was Head (2012-18) and is currently a member of the International Ibsen Committee, University of Oslo. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He has held teaching, research and administrative positions in various institutions, including the East-West Center, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Open University of Hong Kong. He has published numerous books and articles on Ibsen, Gao Xingjian, modern drama, Chinese film, postcolonial literature, and world Englishes. His recent books include Ibsen, Power and the Self: Postsocialist Experimentations in Stage Performance and Film (2019), The Englishized Subject: Postcolonial Writings in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia (2019), and a co-edited volume Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination (2019).