20th Century Chinese Social Sciences: Sociology Volume

Author: Lu Hanlong, edited by Peng Xizhe
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Features: Over a century of three major reassessments, each time constructing a new knowledge system, category, concepts, discourse, and even paradigm for China. These reassessments have provided new theoretical foundations and action plans for China's salvation and survival, the transformation of Chinese civilization, the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the development of China's revolution and modernization. As a result, Chinese social sciences have moved towards society and the public, permeating people's entire spiritual and material lives, and infiltrating into the comprehensive transformation of social systems. Over a century of development in Chinese social sciences has provided a powerful spiritual driving force and a solid spiritual support for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In this century, Chinese social sciences have undergone three large-scale reassessments of prior academic, intellectual, and cultural traditions. Each reassessment has not only brought a major leap forward in social sciences but also a widespread ideological liberation and a significant improvement in the quality of the public. In fact, the reassessment continues to this day. This has shaped the character of Chinese social sciences that combines timeliness, progressiveness, and diversity. Sociology, as a modern discipline originating in the West, has only a little over a century of history. Yet in the past century, the tortuous history of Chinese sociology's introduction and development has, to some extent, concentrated the arduous journey of the growth of knowledge in Chinese social sciences. The compilation of this volume strives to objectively and clearly trace the development of Chinese sociology and its main branch disciplines in the 20th century from the complex and profound activities of sociological theory and practice. Through realistic documentation and commentary, it accurately and comprehensively reflects the overall picture, connotations, and characteristics of the development of the discipline, thereby presenting readers with a complete historical panorama of the evolution and transformation of Chinese sociology over a century.