The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China

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.


Author: Børge Bakken
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 05/11/2000
Pages: 536
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780198295235

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2001 pg. 990

About the Author

Børge Bakken is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen. He has previously been Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oslo and Research Fellow in the Norwegian Research Council.

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