This book argues that a major part of the Chinese government’s
road map, formulated in 2017, to modernise China comprehensively by
2049 is the process of social disciplining. It contends that the
Chinese state sees that modernisation and modernity encompass not
only economic and political–administrative change but are also
related to the organisation of society in general and the
disciplining of this society and its individuals to create people
with “modernised” minds and behaviour; and that, moreover, the
Chinese state is aspiring to a modernity with “Chinese
characteristics”. The question of modernising by disciplining was
extensively dealt with in the twentieth century by leading Western
social scientists including Max Weber, Norbert Elias and Michel
Foucault, who argued that disciplining, extending from external
coercion towards the internalisation of restraints, is
indispensable for achieving social order and thereby for
“civilisation” –but defined from a European perspective, in
relation to developments in Europe. This book therefore not only
discusses the Chinese experience of social disciplining, but also,
by looking at a non-Western society, identifies universal
tendencies of societal change and social disciplining and separates
them from particular occurrences.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Contemporary China Series |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Firstpublished: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Thomas Heberer
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
228 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-240436-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-240436-1 |
Barcode: |
9781032404363 |
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