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IChina - The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society (Hardcover)
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IChina - The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society (Hardcover)
Series: NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, No. 45
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In spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in
modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on
groups and collectives and downplay the individual. This implicit
view has also coloured the study of social life in China where both
Confucian ethics and Communist policies have shaped collective
structures with little room for individual agency and choice. What
is actually happening, however, is a growing individualization of
China - not only changing perceptions of the individual but also
rising expectations for individual freedom, choice and
individuality. The individual has also become a basic social
category in China, and a development has begun that permeates all
areas of social, economic and political life. How this process
evolves in a state and society lacking two of the defining
characteristics of European individualization - a culturally
embedded democracy and a welfare system - is one of the questions
that the volume explores. A strength of this volume is that its
authors succeed in depicting the individualization process in
conceptually acute and empirically sensitive terms, and as
something with its own distinctively Chinese profile. That makes
this book a 'must read' for all those wanting to understand
present-day Chinese society, with all of its ambivalences,
contingencies and contradictions.
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