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

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

Børge Bakken

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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 t...

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