The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China

(Part of the Studies on Contemporary China Series)

by Børge Bakken

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This pathbreaking study analyzes traditional and modern Chinese beliefs about and reactions to education, discipline, human improvement, and social control. Although these reactions to modernity have a Chinese coloring, they are not exclusive to the Chinese culture. By describing the terra incognita of China, The Exemplary Society also describes something about ourselves.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198295235

ISBN13:9780198295235

Release Date:May 2000

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:532 Pages

Weight:2.03 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Anthropology Cultural Humanities Language Arts Linguistics Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Sociology Words, Language & Grammar

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The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China

(Part of the Studies on Contemporary China Series)

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