A Study of the Stability of Contemporary Rural Chinese Society [electronic resource] /
Ying, Xing.author.
This book is the last work of the author’s trilogy on Chinese rural politics. In the background of prominent social conflicts since the 1990s during China’s social transformation, the author conducted in-depth comparative analyses of several conflicts to understand the changes in goals, driving forces, and operating systems in the Chinese rural group contentions. His analyses also focused the changes in techniques and strategies of the governments’ stability maintenance, as well as the complicated social and political consequences brought by these changes.   This book applies a very unique perspective – “vigor” in the Chinese culture – to understand contemporary rural contentious politics, in an attempt to overcome the problem brought by sense and sensibility and the confrontation between power and morality in the current contentious politics studies. And such a perspective successfully avoids the opposition between the transplanting school and rural school, which pushes forward the frontier of research on contentious political theories and rural societies.
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""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction""; ""1.1 Preliminary""; ""1.1.1 Part 1""; ""1.1.2 Part 2""; ""1.2 Prominent Social Stability Problems""; ""1.2.1 As the Poverty Gap Becomes Larger, Society Starts to Become Segregated and Unbalanced""; ""1.2.2 Prominent Antagonistic Psychology Between the Rich and the Poor, and Between Cadres and the People""; ""1.2.3 The Escalation in the Size and Intensity of Collective Petitions and Group Incidents""; ""1.3 Existing Literature""; ""1.4 The Perspective of This Book""; ""1.5 The Categories of Contentious Politics""
""1.6 Methodology and Resource""""1.7 The Organization of This Book""; ""Chapter 2: â€œVigorâ€? in the Scope of Social Conduct: From Traditional China to Contemporary China""; ""2.1 Vigor in Traditional Chinese Culture""; ""2.1.1 Three Meanings in Vigor""; ""2.1.1.1 Physical Meaning""; ""2.1.1.2 Physiological Meaning""; ""2.1.1.3 Psychological Meaning""; ""2.1.2 Vigor and Aspiration""; ""2.1.3 Summary""; ""2.2 Temper Resistance Through Perseverance, and Establishing Virtue Through Vigor: Vigor in Daily Life""; ""2.2.1 Temper Resistance Through Perseverance""
""2.2.1.1 Temper Resistance Through Perseverance Is a Way to Cultivate Oneâ€?s Moral Character""""2.2.1.2 Temper Resistance Through Perseverance Is a Way to Build Human Relationships""; ""2.2.1.3 Temper Resistance Through Perseverance Is a Way to Avoid Litigations""; ""2.2.1.4 Temper Resistance Through Perseverance Is a Way to Bring Pressure""; ""2.2.1.5 Temper Resistance Through Perseverance Is a Way to Follow Oneâ€?s Fate""; ""2.2.2 Establishing Virtue Through Vigor""; ""2.2.2.1 Cramped Struggle""; ""2.2.2.2 Direct Repayment in Confucianism""; ""2.2.2.3 Recognizable Politics""
""2.3 Fight as Vigor Suggests: The Vigor in Contentious Politics""""2.3.1 The Local Characteristics of Vigor""; ""2.3.2 The Aggressiveness of Vigor""; ""2.3.3 The Ethicality of Vigor""; ""2.4 The Change of Vigor in Contemporary China""; ""2.4.1 The Transition in Social Structure""; ""2.4.2 The Unification of Revolutionary Ethics""; ""2.4.3 The Rise of the Demand for Equality""; ""2.4.4 The Increase in the Consciousness of Rights""; ""2.4.5 Summary""; ""2.5 Vigor and Related Concepts: A Comparison Study of Chinese and Western Societies""
""2.5.1 The Transformation of the Meaning of Spiritedness from Ancient to Modern Society""""2.5.1.1 Thymos (Thumos): The Ancient Greek Etymology of Spiritedness""; ""2.5.1.2 From â€œSpiritednessâ€? to â€œPassionsâ€?: The First Evolution of Modern Thoughts""; ""2.5.1.3 From â€œPassionsâ€? to â€œEmotionsâ€?: The Second Evolution of Modern Thoughts""; ""2.5.2 Vigor, Spiritedness, Passions, and Emotions""; ""2.5.2.1 The Physical and Psychological Foundation of Vigor""; ""2.5.2.2 The Ethical Foundation of Vigor""; ""2.5.2.3 Vigor, Force, and Power""; ""2.5.2.4 Summary""
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This book is the last work of the author’s trilogy on Chinese rural politics. In the background of prominent social conflicts since the 1990s during China’s social transformation, the author conducted in-depth comparative analyses of several conflicts to understand the changes in goals, driving forces, and operating systems in the Chinese rural group contentions. His analyses also focused the changes in techniques and strategies of the governments’ stability maintenance, as well as the complicated social and political consequences brought by these changes.   This book applies a very unique perspective – “vigor” in the Chinese culture – to understand contemporary rural contentious politics, in an attempt to overcome the problem brought by sense and sensibility and the confrontation between power and morality in the current contentious politics studies. And such a perspective successfully avoids the opposition between the transplanting school and rural school, which pushes forward the frontier of research on contentious political theories and rural societies.
Sociology.
Sociology, general.