Contemporary China
Subtitle: society and social change
By: Tamara Jacka, Andrew Kipnis and Sally Sargeson
Contributors: Kipnis, Andrew B.; Sargeson, Sally
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Victoria, Australia; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781107011847; 9781107600799
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; Civilization
Notes: Record machine-generated from publisher information.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Social institutions: 1. Families, kinship and relatedness; 2. Marriage, intimacy, sex; 3. Citizenship, household registration and migration; 4. Community institutions; 5. Work; Part II. Cultures, socialization and the formation of identities: 6. Religion, ritual and religiosity; 7. Ethnicity; 8. Education and the cultivation of citizens; 9. Modernity, youth identities and popular culture; Part III. Inequalities, injustices and social responses; 10. Class and stratification; 11. Regional, rural/urban and within-community inequalities; 12. The 'woman question' and gender inequalities; 13. Collective action and social change.