Laurence Roulleau-Berger and Guo Yuhua, Li Peilin, Liu Shiding (eds.), La nouvelle sociologie chinoise (New Chinese Sociology)

Banished from academia for nearly three decades, sociology was reborn in China in the late 1970s and was co-opted by the authorities in the country’s modernisation programme. La nouvelle sociologie chinoise goes beyond recounting the reconstruction process to present the state of contemporary Chinese sociology through 15 articles and authors deemed representative of the field of research. However, the book is not limited to compiling the big names in “new Chinese sociology”: Two long introduc..