The Great Wall in Ruins: Communication and Cultural Change in China (S U N Y Series in Human Communication Processes) (SUNY series, Human Communication Processes) - Softcover

Chu, Godwin C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791416224 ISBN 13: 9780791416228

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1993

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Book by Chu Godwin C

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This book presents a survey of rural and urban Chinese people examining the dramatic changes in traditional culture that have taken place, and documenting the nature of contemporary Chinese culture. Chu and Ju examine attitudes about family relations, social relations, job preferences and work ethic, organizational relations, community life, and belief systems.

Although there remains some limited continuity with the past, mainly in family stability, the book shows how lifestyle and values in post-Mao China today reveal a radical departure from traditional Chinese culture. The authors discover that Chinese people no longer endorse the Confucian precepts of harmony and tolerance, nor do they submit compliantly to authority as previous generations did. They now demonstrate, in an environment of rising aspirations and mounting frustration, a new assertiveness, as seen in the tragic outburst in the Tiananmen demonstrations.

Biografía del autor

Godwin C. Chu is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Culture and Communication at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Yanan Ju is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0791416224
• ISBN 13: 9780791416228
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 382