UID:
almahu_9949568084602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781003353065
,
1003353061
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9781000924893
,
1000924890
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9781000924848
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100092484X
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary China series
Content:
"This book argues that a major part of the Chinese government's roadmap, formulated in 2017, to modernize 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 internalization 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 by looking at a non-Western society it identifies universal tendencies of societal change and social disciplining and separates them from particular occurrences"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Heberer, Thomas. Social disciplining and civilising processes in China Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032404363
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003353065
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003353065
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