http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/02/%e4%b8%ad%e5%8d%8e%e6%96%87%e5%8c%96%e6%b0%b8%e6%81%92%e7%b2%be%e7%a5%9e%e4%bb%b7%e5%80%bc/ The China History Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:30 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/02/%e4%b8%ad%e5%8d%8e%e6%96%87%e5%8c%96%e6%b0%b8%e6%81%92%e7%b2%be%e7%a5%9e%e4%bb%b7%e5%80%bc/comment-page-1/#comment-91215 Jonathan Dresner Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:14:20 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/02/%e4%b8%ad%e5%8d%8e%e6%96%87%e5%8c%96%e6%b0%b8%e6%81%92%e7%b2%be%e7%a5%9e%e4%bb%b7%e5%80%bc/#comment-91215 I wonder sometimes if social science hasn't been a deeply mixed blessing. The ability to measure change has enhanced, sometimes produced, immense anxiety over the causes, nature, desirability and "solution" to change. I wonder sometimes if social science hasn’t been a deeply mixed blessing. The ability to measure change has enhanced, sometimes produced, immense anxiety over the causes, nature, desirability and “solution” to change.

]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/02/%e4%b8%ad%e5%8d%8e%e6%96%87%e5%8c%96%e6%b0%b8%e6%81%92%e7%b2%be%e7%a5%9e%e4%bb%b7%e5%80%bc/comment-page-1/#comment-91125 K M Lawson Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:37:05 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/02/%e4%b8%ad%e5%8d%8e%e6%96%87%e5%8c%96%e6%b0%b8%e6%81%92%e7%b2%be%e7%a5%9e%e4%bb%b7%e5%80%bc/#comment-91125 Thanks for posting this! It is tiring sometimes to see, time after time, and in country after country, assumptions of cultural uniqueness. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is dismissed as an outsider's reductionism. The nostalgia that lies behind the fear of ending up with 无家可归’ mixes both the feeling of a collapse in family values and, though it is not mentioned here, the disintegration of ties to places of origins. Especially in Korean and Japanese versions of this, the fear of cultural decay from urbanization mixes with the fears that go with the higher divorce rates that that have accompanied the rise of women's independence worldwide. Thanks for posting this! It is tiring sometimes to see, time after time, and in country after country, assumptions of cultural uniqueness. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is dismissed as an outsider’s reductionism. The nostalgia that lies behind the fear of ending up with 无家可归’ mixes both the feeling of a collapse in family values and, though it is not mentioned here, the disintegration of ties to places of origins. Especially in Korean and Japanese versions of this, the fear of cultural decay from urbanization mixes with the fears that go with the higher divorce rates that that have accompanied the rise of women’s independence worldwide.

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