What Has Been Lost in Contemporary China? Chinese edition - Chen, Lixing
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About the book: What Has Been Lost in Contemporary China? focuses on contemporary China since the 20th century. After a half century of humiliation by Western powers, followed by the inmost soul is cleaned by the socialist revolution, and the impact of globalization of the market economy over the past 30 years, China achieved its goals of modernizations and entered the G2 the ranks of the great powers with the 'wounded Chinese culture'. In today's China, social and moral deterioration, feasting and materialistic people everywhere. The author from a sociologist perspective and her own personal…mehr

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About the book: What Has Been Lost in Contemporary China? focuses on contemporary China since the 20th century. After a half century of humiliation by Western powers, followed by the inmost soul is cleaned by the socialist revolution, and the impact of globalization of the market economy over the past 30 years, China achieved its goals of modernizations and entered the G2 the ranks of the great powers with the 'wounded Chinese culture'. In today's China, social and moral deterioration, feasting and materialistic people everywhere. The author from a sociologist perspective and her own personal experiences by living socialist ideology revolution, reform and transnational period, with problem awareness to reflect on Chinese society, to find what Chinese traditional culture has been lost in in Contemporary China? To explore what kind of social changes happened in after China realised its goal of modernization? To recover what are the operating mechanism of China's social system? What kind of value system needs to maintain the mechanism of contemporary China's social system? Background: Over the past 500 years, the contacts and exchanges between China and the West are more and more intensive, but the depth of their mutual understanding is still subject to the limitations of various factors. Due to differences in history, culture and ideological confrontation, there are still misunderstandings and even prejudices against each other. The rapid development of China after the implement of reform and opening up policy nearly four decades ago, it has attracted worldwide attention and expectation of China to take its share of responsibilities and obligations in all areas of international affairs. In the past few decades, the global society has undergone modernization, post-modernization, modernity, post-modernity, multi-modernity, globalization, and post globalization. We believe that the concept of transculturality, related to but distinct from cross-, inter- and multiculturality, can become mainstream discourse in the near future. It could help us to abandon previous prejudices, re-examine each other objectively and rationally. About the book series: What Has Been Lost in Contemporary China? is the first book of the 'Transcultural experiences with "three eyes" book series', the only social scientific popular book series published by Global Century Press (GCP) from 2015. GCP is the first publisher focusing on bilingual publications of China, the Chinese and non-Chinese perspectives of China in a global context. It focuses on studies of China in comparative perspective, Chinese perspective of the world or human knowledge, and non-Chinese perspective of China in a global context. This book series is edited by Lixing Chen and Xiangqun Chang. Chen is Professor of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, former researcher of United Nations Regional Development Center (UNCRD), and served as former president of the Japan-China Sociological Society (JCSS), and member of Organization Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Chang is President of Global China Academy, UK based academic institute; Honorary Professor of University College London (UCL); and holder of several Professorships and Senior Fellowships at manor universities in the UK and China.
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Lixing Chen is Professor of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. She is the first Chinese citizen to obtain a PhD in sociology in Japan. After she served as researcher at the United Nations Regional Development Center (UNCRD) she returned to academia and became the first professor of Chinese nationality in Japan, and even served as president of the Japan-China Sociological Society (JCSS). She has led many major research projects, such as the 'Comparative Studies on the New Migrants from BRIC counties in America, Australia, Japan and the UK'. She has published more than 40 articles and 9 books in Japanese, English and Chinese.