China's Society and Culture

Studies and Reflections
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-25089-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

For millennia, scholars have been drawn to China’s society and culture, sparking curiosity among monks and thinkers from Eastern cultures, as well as explorers and traders from the Middle East and the West. As it has evolved over time, China has remained a central figure in the world’s imagination.

This volume explores society and culture of China undertaken by scholars across generations and disciplines. It studies broad ranging themes including gender, sexuality and identity; society and the state; art, cinema, literature and popular culture; and Asian societies in comparative perspective. Going beyond theoretical dogmas, the contributors employ diverse methodological frameworks to offer unique and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Dedicated to Patricia Uberoi, an eminent Sociologist and an esteemed scholar of China Studies, this book examines a range of social, cultural and political ideas, institutions and practices. The book will be an important reading for scholars and students of Chinese Studies in general and Chinese Society and Culture in particular. It will also interest those concerned with Area Studies, East Asia, India-China relations, international relations, and sociology.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitra, Sabaree

Chandran, Usha

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Lists of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface Introduction I. Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity Politics 1. Status Quo Amid ‘Change’: Xi Jinping’s Common Prosperity Agenda and Its Interface with Labour 2. ‘Zenyang zuo ge Shenzhenren?’ Local State Narratives and Migrant-Worker Subjectivities in Shenzhen 3. Ethnic Culture and Gender Relations among Naxi women in Lijiang, China 4. Significance of Bayandai: Wang Meng’s Quest for Renewing Self, Ethnic Transcendence, and Interethnic Unity II. China and India: Development and Policy Perspectives 5. The Importance of China’s Two ‘Leftovers’ 6. Media Responses to China’s Two-Child Policy and People’s Resistance to State-Controlled Reproduction 7. India and China: Some Reflections in Relation to Child Marriage 8. Disruption in Travel of Indian Students for Medical Education: The Case of China and Ukraine III. Chinese Culture and Cultural Interactions across Time 9. Legends and Myths: A Cultural Bridge between India and China 10. Popular Culture in Contemporary Mainstream Chinese Society: Twenty-first Century Avatar of Confucianism 11. Prize Economy and Chinese Literature 12. The Broadened Road of Realism: Debates and Praxis in Chinese Literature IV. Visual Culture in the Making of Perception 13. Seeing China through the Lens of Indian Cinema: An Account of the Popular and Civic Imagination 14. History, Subversion and Chinese Society through the Lens of Web Dramas: The OTT Trend 15. Relational Margins in International Relations: Reading Select Pre- and Post-Pandemic Cinematic Portrayals of Migrant Workers in China and India V. Journeys, Scholarship, and Universalism 16. Exploration, Travel and Pilgrimage in High Asia: Journeys of Transformation 17. The Nation and Its Borders in Patricia Uberoi’s Ouvre 18. Unfolding the Multilayered Diversity of Asia: Publication of Asian Families and Intimacies as a Foundation for Asian Collaboration 19. Recasting Cultural Questions in the Twenty First Century: Reflections on China in a Comparative Framework. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Sabaree Mitra is Professor of Chinese in Jawaharlal Nehru University and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), New Delhi. Her teaching and research have spanned the fields of contemporary Chinese literature and criticism, Chinese cultural history, gender issues, India-China cultural relations and regional interaction. Her latest publication is an edited volume titled China’s May Fourth Movement: New Narratives and Perspectives (Routledge, 2023). She is the Editor of the ICS quarterly journal, China Report, published by Sage.

Usha Chandran is Assistant Professor, Centre for Chinese Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies. She holds a PhD in Chinese from Jawaharlal Nehru University; her research interests include gender issues in China and comparison with India, interface between gender, language, literature and popular culture, women’s subjectivity and socio-cultural dimensions in literature and Chinese society.  Her latest publication is Gender Discrimination at Work in Urban China (Routledge 2025).