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Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

New Books in Sociology

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Two Types of Change and the Gentry View

Xiang contrasts self-improvement versus systemic change and introduces the gentry perspective: empirical local knowledge combined with normative purpose for community wellbeing.

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