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The Underworld of Rural China: Research on Rural Gangs on China's Jianghan Plain and Dongting Lake Plain

The Underworld of Rural China: Research on Rural Gangs on China's Jianghan Plain and Dongting Lake Plain

Chen, Baifeng
Jun, Guo

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9811987092
ISBN13: 9789811987090
Publisher: Springer
Published: Feb 21 2023
Pages: 287
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book aims to provide the readers a better understanding of rural China through the particular perspective of the rural underworld. It proposes new concepts to describe social changes of rural China by comparing the contemporary rural society with the acquaintance society-the classic model for depicting the traditional Chinese society. The author's down-to-earth fieldwork has revealed that, with a permeating gang influence, the society of rural China has actually changed in nature. Such change in social nature is summarized as the estrangement of acquaintances or moral ambiguity. As a result of the rural gangster's unlawful acts of lining their pockets with national resources, rural China is going through rural governance involution. In short, this book develops new models and concepts to establish a comprehensive scientific conceptual system for explaining social reality. With hard-to-come-by information and a prudent and multi-faceted analysis on a neglected topic, this book gradually reveals to the readers the true picture of rural China.

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