Inner Experience of the Chinese People: Globalization, Social Transformation, and the Evolution of Social Mentality

ISBN-13: 9789811352850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 198 str.

Xiaohong Zhou

Spis treści

Chinese Feeling: The Insight into the Changeable of Chinese Mentality.- From Tradition to Modern.- The Transition of Chinese Values.- The Pursuit of Happiness.- Developments in Consumerism.- New Trends in Emotions and Interpersonal Relationships.- Trust: From a Society of Acquaintances to a Society of Strangers.- From Wire to Wireless: The Transformation of Communication Psychology.- The Re-alteration of Intergenerational Relationships.- Attitudes to Love and Romance.- Restraint and Pleasure:  The Chinese Sexual Revolution.- The Death and Rebirth of Class Consciousness.- The Logic of Collective Action.- Civic consciousness and Social Participation.- Facing the Future, or Remodeling the Chinese Mentality.

O autorze

Professor Zhou Xiaohong is Professor in sociology and social psychology, Head of Department of Sociology, Nanjing University. He plays a leading role in “China Studies” in China. 

He has produced more than 20 works, such as Cultural Reverse: Intercultural Revolution in a Transitional Society; Tradition and Transformation: Social Psychology of Jiangsu & Zhejiang Farmers, and its Evolution in Modern Times; The History and System of Western Sociology (Volume 1) Classic Contribution; Modern Social Psychology; Modern History of Social Psychology. 

He has published more than 90 research papers both in Chinese and English in Social Sciences in China, Sociological Studies, Historical Research etc. 

He has received the following: special government allowance (1993), Baogang Teacher Special Prize (1995),Outstanding Young Teacher Award (The Ministry of Education, 2001), Middle-aged and Young Expert with Outstanding Contributions(Jiangsu, 2004)

, National Award for Distinguished Teacher (The Ministry of Education, 2003).

Blurb

This book comprehensively explores the changes in the Chinese spiritual world from the perspective of transition and transformation. Chinese feeling, a brand-new concept corresponding to Chinese experience, refers to the vicissitudes that 1.3 billion Chinese people have been through in their spiritual worlds. The book discusses this concept together with Chinese experience, two aspects of the transformation of the Chinese mentality that resulted from the unprecedented social changes since 1978, and which have given this unique era historical meaning and cultural values. At the same time they offer a dual perspective for understanding this great social transition. 

Further, the book considers what will happen if we only focus on the “Chinese Experience” while neglecting the “Chinese Feeling”; the changes the Chinese people undergo when their desires, wishes and personalities have changed China; and how their emotionally charged social mentality foll

ow ebbs and flows of the changing society. Lastly it asks what embarrassment and frustration the population will be faced with next after the tribulations their spiritual world has already been through.