China's new social fabric
Chu,C.Godwin (ed.)
China's new social fabric - London Kegan Paul International. 1983 - 293p.
China has undergone tumultuous changes in the last thirty years, yet Chinese society has not only stayed intact, but has made progress. The pace at which the country has reunited following the death of Chairman Mao has taken the outside world by surprise. The contributors to this book ask what are the integrative factors in contemporary China that have held the society together during the urse of its revolutionary transformation and examine various aspects of the Chinese social system for clues to the answer.
What they have found is a new Chinese social fabric that in part has its roots in China's traditional social and cultural foundations. They show how the Chinese system draws its strength from the local communities, and is integrated through an intricate web of communication channels, mostly laid down since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949.The downfall of the radicals after the death of Mao has altered the policy regarding the interim objectives of the system, but not its basic structural processes.
China's experience in the last thirty years, both its success and its setbacks, will be of interest to many developing societies, torn between staying too close to the status quo, and demolishing their basic social institutions in the name of change and progress.The contributors believe that the Chinese experience is relevant also to highly industrialized countries. All too often the tendency there is to seek a solution to a problem by pumping in more money, while neglecting other tasks, such as communication, which may-as this book shows-play a vital role in generating the desire for self-help.
0710300506
China Social conditions 1949-1976
306 CHI
China's new social fabric - London Kegan Paul International. 1983 - 293p.
China has undergone tumultuous changes in the last thirty years, yet Chinese society has not only stayed intact, but has made progress. The pace at which the country has reunited following the death of Chairman Mao has taken the outside world by surprise. The contributors to this book ask what are the integrative factors in contemporary China that have held the society together during the urse of its revolutionary transformation and examine various aspects of the Chinese social system for clues to the answer.
What they have found is a new Chinese social fabric that in part has its roots in China's traditional social and cultural foundations. They show how the Chinese system draws its strength from the local communities, and is integrated through an intricate web of communication channels, mostly laid down since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949.The downfall of the radicals after the death of Mao has altered the policy regarding the interim objectives of the system, but not its basic structural processes.
China's experience in the last thirty years, both its success and its setbacks, will be of interest to many developing societies, torn between staying too close to the status quo, and demolishing their basic social institutions in the name of change and progress.The contributors believe that the Chinese experience is relevant also to highly industrialized countries. All too often the tendency there is to seek a solution to a problem by pumping in more money, while neglecting other tasks, such as communication, which may-as this book shows-play a vital role in generating the desire for self-help.
0710300506
China Social conditions 1949-1976
306 CHI