Chinese Sociology State-Building and the Institutionalization of Globally Circulated Knowledge /

• Main Author: Chen, Hon Fai (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Sociology Transformed
• Subjects: Sociology.; Historical sociology.; Philosophy and social sciences.; China-History.; Sociological Theory.; Historical Sociology.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; History of China.

This book examines the institutional development of Chinese sociology from the 1890s to the present. It plots the discipline's twisting path in the Chinese context, from early Western influences; through the institutionalization of the discipline in the 1930s-40s; its problematic relationship w...