In Search of a Metaphor to Understand China's Changes.

Paine, Lynn

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Publication Date: 1986

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In Search of a Metaphor to Understand China's Changes.

Paine, Lynn

Social Education, v50 n2 p106-09 Feb 1986

Presents three theories or "perspectives" for studying recent changes in China: the modernization perspective which views changes as a form of evolutionary development, the cyclical perspective which interprets changes as the ebb and flow of normal phases, and the dialectical perspective which assumes changes stem from unresolved cultural contradictions. (JDH)

Descriptors: Chinese Culture, History Instruction, Secondary Education, Social Change, Theories

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Historical Materials

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: China

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