What Has Been Lost In Contemporary China (chinese Edition) [Paperback]

What Has Been Lost in Contemporary China? Volume 1 in the 'Transcultural Experiences Seen through Three Eyes ' book series Product details Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Global China Press (1 November 2015) Language: Chinese ISBN: 978-1-910334-16-4 Product Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm About the author Chen Lixing is Professor of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. She was the first Chinese citizen to obtain a PhD in sociology in Japan. After working as a researcher at the United Nations Regional Development Centre (UNCRD), she returned to academia and was the first Chinese national to become a professor of sociology in Japan. In addition to serving as president of the Japan-China Sociological Society (JCSS), she has led many major research projects, for example 'Comparative Studies on the New Migrants from BRIC countries in America, Australia, Japan and the UK' and published more than 40 articles and nine books in Japanese, English and Chinese. About the book What Has Been Lost in Contemporary China? (in Chinese) is the first book in the 'Transcultural Experiences Seen through Three Eyes ' book series. It focuses on contemporary China since the early 20th century. After a half century of humiliation by Western powers, followed by much soul-searching and spiritual cleansing during the socialist revolution and the impact of the globalization of the market economy over the past 30 years, China has achieved its goal of modernization and entered the ranks of the great powers in the G2. But in the process its culture has suffered. In today's China, social and moral decay, excessive consumption and materialism are everywhere. In this book, the author, contemplating China from a sociologist's perspective and drawing on her own personal experiences of living through different periods of the socialist China and its aftermath, reflects on which elements of Chinese traditional culture have been lost along the way. What kinds of social changes have happened in Cls$