Sociology and Anthropology in twentieth-Century China 中國社會學與人類學

Between Universalism and Indigenism

DIRLIK, Arif; LI, Guannan and YEN, Hsiao-pei

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• eBook ISBN:
  9789629964757
• Year: 2012

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 twentieth 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.

Table of contents

• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Series
• List of Contributors
• 1. Zhongguohua: Worlding China
• 2. Academic Universality and Indigenization:
• 3. The Synthesis School and the Founding of “Orthodox” and “Authentic” Sociology in NationalistChina:
• 4. Searching for a Place beyond Modern Chinese History
• 5. Cultural Policy and Culture under the Guomindang
• 6. Li Anzhai and Frontier Anthropology
• 7. Southeast and Southwest
• 8. Chinese of Different Nationalities, China, and the Anthropology of Chinese Culture
• 9. The Movement to Indigenize the Social Sciences in Taiwan:
• 10. From Sinicization to Indigenization in the Social Sciences
• 11. Studying Taiwan
• 12. On the Practice of Market Transition
• 13. Narratives of the “Sufferer” as Historical Testimonyi
• Index