Description
Book SynopsisWritten in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, this title describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the useful features of both. It shows how these features reflect and are reflected in the moral and ethical characters of people in these societies.
Table of ContentsForeword
Introduction: Fei Xiaotong and the Beginnings
of a Chinese Sociology, by Gary G. Hamilton
and Wang Zheng
1. Special Characteristics of Rural Society
2. Bringing Literacy to the Countryside
3· More Thoughts on Bringing Literacy to
the Countryside
4· Chaxugeju: The Differential Mode of Association
5· The Morality of Personal Relationships
6. Patrilineages
7· "Between Men and Women, There Are
Only Differences"
8. A Rule of Ritual
9· A Society without Litigation
10. An Inactive Government
11. Rule by Elders
12. Consanguinity and Regionalism
13. Separating Names from Reality
14. From Desire to Necessity
Epilogue: Sociology and the Reconstruction
of Rural China, by Gary G. Hamilton and
WangZheng
Glossary
Index
