Book ID: CBB001202153

Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (2012)

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Dirlik, Arif (Editor)
Li, Guannan (Editor)
Yen, Hsiao-pei (Editor)


Chinese University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xi + 371 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Within this text, the contributors provide a historical perspective on the development of anthropology and sociology since their introduction to Chinese thought and education in the early 20th century, with an emphasis on the 1930s and 1980s. The authors offer different windows on theoretical and research agendas of anthropologists and sociologists of the PRC and Taiwan, shaped as much by their political context as by disciplinary training. In examining the careers of several individual scholars, they also make note not only of their creative contributions, but also of the resonance of their intellectual concerns with contemporary issues in sociology and anthropology (culturalism, frontiers, women). Finally, the volume is organized loosely around the problem of how to translate these disciplines into a Chinese context(s), the issues of "indigenization"(bentuhua) or "making Chinese" (Zhongguohua), which have haunted the two disciplines since their establishment in the 1930s because of the contradictory expectations that they generate. This is where the case of China resonates with similar concerns in other societies where the disciplines were imported from abroad as products of a Euro/American capitalist modernity, conflicting with aspirations to create their own localized alternative modernities.

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Review Sausmikat, Nora (2012) Review of "Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism". Journal of Asian Studies (p. 1102). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Jianmin, Wang (2012) Academic Universality and Indigenization: The Case of Chinese Anthropology. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 41). unapi

Chapter Li, Guannan (2012) The Synthesis School and the Founding of “Orthodox” and “Authentic” Sociology in Nationalist China: Sun Benwen's Sociological Thinking and Practice. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 63). unapi

Chapter Li, Guannan (2012) Cultural Policy and Culture under the Guomindang: Huang Wenshan and “Culturology”. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 109). unapi

Chapter Yen, Hsiao-pei (2012) Li Anzhai and Frontier Anthropology: Tibet, Discourse of the Frontier, and Applied Anthropology during World War II, 1937--1945. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 139). unapi

Chapter Chee-Beng, Tan (2012) Chinese of Different Nationalities, China, and the Anthropology of Chinese Culture. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 191). unapi

Chapter Chun, Allen (2012) From Sinicization to Indigenization in the Social Sciences: Is That All There Is?. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 255). unapi

Chapter Chuang, Ya-Chung (2012) Studying Taiwan: The Academic Politics of Bentu in Post-Authoritarian Taiwan. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 283). unapi

Chapter Yuhua, Guo (2012) Narratives of the “Sufferer” as Historical Testimony. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 333). unapi

Chapter Dirlik, Arif (2012) Zhongguohua: Worlding China: the Case of Sociology and Anthropology in 20th-Century China. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Yue, Liang (2012) Searching for a Place beyond Modern Chinese History: A Study of the Sociologist Lei Jieqiong. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 89). unapi

Chapter Mingming, Wang (2012) Southeast and Southwest: Searching for the Link between “Research Regions”. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 161). unapi

Chapter Chang, Maukuei (2012) The Movement to Indigenize the Social Sciences in Taiwan: Origin and Predicaments. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 209). unapi

Chapter Liping, Sun (2012) On the Practice of Market Transition. In: Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (p. 307). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Danell, Rickard
Wiebke Keim
Seth, Sanjay
Adela Hîncu
Karady, Viktor
Ghosh, Arunabh
Concepts
Science and culture
Anthropology
Social sciences
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Sociology
Discipline formation
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
Places
China
New Zealand
Europe
Australia
Nigeria
Indonesia
Institutions
Mass-Observation
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