Chinese society and politics
By: Ambrose Y.C. King.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Confucian sociology; Civilization, Confucian; China -- Politics and government; Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government; Taiwan -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The individual and group in Confucianism: a relational perspective; title: Shame as an incomplete conception of Chinese culture: a study of face; title: The Confucian paradigm of man: a sociological view; title: Kuan-Hsi and network building: a sociological interpretation; title: The role of intellectuals in Chinese state socialism; title: "Modernization" and "modernity:" the construction of a modern Chinese civilizational order; title: Administrative absorption of politics in Hong Kong: emphasis on the grass roots level; title: A nonparadigmatic search for democracy in a post-Confucian culture: the case of Taiwan, R.O.C.; title: State Confucianism and its transformation: the restructuring of the state-society relation in Taiwan; title: The transformation of Confucianism in the post-Confucian era: the emergence of rationalistic traditionalism in Hong Kong; title: Max Weber and the question of development of the modern state in China; title: Confucianism, modernity, and Asian democracy.