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Society Building - A China Model of Social Development Understanding China and the World series Product details Paperback: 238 pages Publisher: Global China Press (1 November 2015) Language: English ISBN: 978-1-910334-02-7 Product Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm About the Editor Xiangqun Chang is Director of CCPN Global, Editor of Journal of China in Comparative Perspective (JCCP), and Chief Editor of Global China Press. She is also Honorary Professor at University College London, UK, and holder of several professorships and senior fellowships at Peking, Renmin, Fudan and Sun Yat-sen universities in China. Her publications include Guanxi or Li shang wanglai? Reciprocity, Social Support Networks, & So...
Fei Xiaotong Studies (Vol. 2) consists of articles by authors from the UK, Japan, USA, Germany, China and Hong Kong. The main articles focus on Fei Xiaotong and related studies, with China in comparative perspective. It also includes articles on globalization of Chinese sociology and world anthropology.
In China’s future social development, there is likely to be an interest in “society building” with interactions between top-down and bottom-up approaches, along with a deepened level of social reform and the construction of a harmonious or “symbiotic” society. This represents one of China’s social development models, and is reflected in the Communist Party of China (CPC) and state policy. The term “society building” was proposed by Chinese thinkers nearly one century ago, and has been used by Chinese sociologists to study Chinese society since the 1930s. In the 21st century, “society building” has been approached as an interdisciplinary concept by Chinese social scientist...
This volume serves as a companion to Martin Albrow's previous book China's Role in the Shared Common Future: Towards Theory for Global Leadership (2018). It consists of essential selections of work on the theory and practice of globalization (Chapter 2) by the author, the British social theorist and pioneer of global studies, based on his 60-year academic career, which lays a solid theoretical foundation for this book. In the past 10 years, the author has paid much attention to the issue of global governance and China. The editor collected almost all the author's complete works in Chapters 3-6 including, academic papers and writings, newspaper articles, lectures, speech notes in academic and...
'Chinese for social sciences' or 'Chinese language for Social Sciences' is a branch of 'Chinese for Specific Purposes' (CSP), like 'Chinese for science and technology' or 'business Chinese'. The innovative idea was first developed by CCPN Global. Through its Global China Dialogue, it has attracted a wide participation by speakers and delegates from many different organizations including universities in the UK, USA, China, France, public and governmental institutions, NGOs and media and so on. With JCCP's commitment to dual-language publication to benefit scholars and readers of both Chinese and English, translations of terminologies, concepts, ideas and thoughts on social sciences form the b...
Globalization of Chinese Social Sciences: Commemorating the 105th Anniversary of Professor Fei Xiaotong's Birth Understanding China and the World series Product details Paperback: 198 pages Publisher: Global China Press; New World Press (2 November 2015) Language: Chinese ISBN: 978-1-910334-06-5 Product Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm Price: 19.99 About the Editors Stephan Feuchtwang is an emeritus professor of the Department of Anthropology, and Stephan Feuchtwang is Emeritus Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Founding Director of the China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Xiangqun Chang is Director of CCPN Global, Editor...
Product details Book title: Transculturality and New Global Governance Book series: Global China Dialogue Proceedings Series Vol. 1 Page number: 178 pages Publisher: London: Global China Press (April 2016) Language: English ISBN: 978-1-910334-24-9 Product Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm Price: 18.99 (paperback) Description: The Global China Dialogues (GCD) are a series of events with the key concepts of 'transculturality' and 'social creativity', aimed at enhancing public understanding of current global affairs and common interests via public dialogue and discussion between Chinese and non-Chinese academics, experts, professionals and practitioners and interested laypeople, from interdisciplinary and...
This essential reference work provides an alphabetic listing, with an extensive "index," of studies on women in China from earliest times to the present day written in Western languages, primarily English, French, German, and Italian. Containing more than 2500 citations of books, chapters in books, and articles, especially those published in the last thirty years, and more than 100 titles of doctoral dissertations and Masters theses, it covers works written in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; art and archaeology; demography; economics; education; fashion; film and media studies; history; interdisciplinary studies; law; literature; music; medicine, science, and technology; political science; and religion and philosophy. It also contains many citations of studies of women in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
A work of political economy from the perspective of an anthropologist who has made a career of studying poverty and displaced people, Global Threats, Global Futures will prove rewarding reading for anyone concerned with issues of economic development, environmental and cultural degradation, and the causes and solutions of poverty. Most of all, Thayer Scudder illuminates a path, not only possible but plausible, through a destructive maze of humankind s own making if only the political will can be found to tread it. Engineering & Science Thayer Scudder is one of those gifted authors who have the experience and the vision to span multiple sectors and far flung sites in assessing where humankind...