Capture The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, And The Dangers Of Modernity In China Interpreted By Børge Bakken Shown As Script

Sinological sociologist indeed is very rare these times, The book mostly focuses on the communist period, following Walder's "neotraditionalist" diagnosis of the current China, It is quite insightful that the author notes the Chinese elite preoccupation of "controlled change" and the real attempts to tame modernization, It has great implications of rethinking "social change" from this perspective of reinventing social control systems

that were effective in the past, In the last chapter, the author cites Perez Zagorin's book Ways of lying : dissimulation, persecution, and conformity in early modern Europe, published in, The author seems to have enough erudition for writing true comparative history, Why not doing it It's too bad perhaps only China experts read this book, This pathbreaking study analyzes traditional and modern Chinese beliefs about and reactions to education, discipline, human improvement, and social control, Although these reactions to modernity have a Chinese coloring, they are not exclusive to the Chinese culture, By describing the terra incognita of China, The Exemplary Society also describes something about ourselves,
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