Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949

Zusammenfassung This 2001 book narrates the origins! visions and achievements of the social sciences in China. It focuses on the efforts of social scientists at three institutions to relate their disciplines to the needs of Chinese society. More broadly! he examines the transfer! indigenization and international patronage of the social sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Ackowledgments; Notes on names and Romanization; 1. Introduction; 2. The Yanjing sociology department: the social service phase, 1919-25; 3. The Yanjing Sociology Department: from social service to social engineering, 1925-45; 4. The Nankai Institute of Economics: the germinating stage, 1927-31; 5. The Nankai Institute of Economics: academic entrepreneurship and social engineering, 1931-47; 6. Marxism, revolution and the study of Chinese society; 7. Genesis of a Marxist social science enterprise in the early 1930s; 8. The social sciences, agrarian China and the advocacy of revolution; 9. The Rockefeller foundation and Chinese academic enterprise; 10. Conclusion: the legacy; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Yung-Chen Chiang, Yung-Chen (Depauw University Chiang
• Assisted by: William Kirby (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2006
• EAN: 9780521027243
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02724-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Modern China
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories