The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China

ISBN-13: 9780198295235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 536 str.

Borge Bakken; B/Orge Bakken

Opis

This pathbreaking study analyzes traditional and modern Chinese beliefs about and reactions to education, discipline, human improvement, and social control. Although these reactions to modernity have a Chinese coloring, they are not exclusive to the Chinese culture. By describing the terra incognita of China, The Exemplary Society also describes something about ourselves.

Recenzje

a brave and challenging attempt to bridge the political and epistemological crevasses which litter the path to a more inclusive understanding of the meaning of modernization. ... To a non-China specialist, this book is full of insights and represents an extraordinary intellectual effort in bringing together different traditions of thought. ... there is much to enthral and ponder upon in terms of the big questions of social and political thought. It is highly reommended.

O autorze

Børge Bakken is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen. He has previously been Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oslo and Research Fellow in the Norwegian Research Council.