The Exemplary Society : Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies on Contemporary China
ISBN-10
0198295235
ISBN-13
9780198295235
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 9th, 2000
Print length
532 Pages
Weight
968 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 16.40 x 3.50 cms
Product Classification:
Social issues & processesAnthropology
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The Exemplary Society examines traditional and modern Chinese beliefs about education, discipline, and social control. It describes the Chinese attitudes towards criminality, sex, youth culture, and other `disorders' of the modernization process. The resulting quest for social control through an exemplary educative and disciplinary society is analysed in this pathbreaking study.
In modern China, technocratic utopias go side by side with moral panics. The modernization process is seen as creating the `disorders'' of criminality, sex, and modern youth culture. The official answer to disorder is an exemplary societyan educative and disciplinary society where `human quality'' and model behaviour is advocated. Modern Chinese society, however, resists being reduced to the exemplary discipline of its social engineers, and strategies of `lying'' and resisting control are routine. This pathbreaking study analyses traditional and modern Chinese beliefs about and reactions to education, discipline, human improvement, and social control. Although these reactions to modernity have a Chinese colouring, they are not exclusive to the Chinese culture. By describing the terra incognita of China, The Exemplary Society also describes something about ourselves.
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