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Essay On Civil Society' Significance For The Contemporary Development Of China's Society

Posted on:2008-09-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360245460382Subject:Principles of Political Science
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With the reform of economic system according to market and the development of socialist market economy, the construction of civil society has already became an attainable target in China, and the Probing into this Problem has also became a focus in theory circles. The first important task to construct civil society lis to define the concept of "civil society "explicitly. "Civil society" is a concept that came from the western history experience, and went through three development stages as follows: classical concept of civil society-neoteric concept of civil society-modem concept of civil society. Scanning the development of the concept, and combining with the concrete and special context of China, we can define "civil society" as: it is a field of private autonomy, which based on market economy, consisting of the field of Private economy and the public field of social culture, independent of the state relatively, and developing with it coordinately. The construction of civil society spreads from two aspects, including the field of Private economy and the Public field of social culture. It is impossible to repeat the course of the West to construct civil society in China, this is irrational and un Practical.After nearly 30 years of reforms and opening up, China's social development has some unprecedented new features, which are to a certain extent, speeded up the construction of China's civil society. At the same time, China's social development is also an objective reality to the public on the existence of the community building theoretical pursuit.Contemporary China is experiencing two great transformations-society changes and construction transformations, the social forces of freedom and autonomy rights actively pursued,during this process. However, the social theory is a theory from the West, with the Chinese how to be the practice of the theory is in place before the theoretical circle which is an important topic.
Keywords/Search Tags:Civil Society, Democratic Politics, Fanning Culture, Civic Awareness
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