Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory

Download or read book Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory written by Xiaoying Qi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the nature and possibilities of conceptual change and transformation under conditions of globalization, especially with regard to Chinese social and cultural concepts. It argues that the influence of globalization promotes the spread of West European and American social science concepts and methods at the expense of local concepts and approaches, and at the same time (paradoxically) provides opportunities for the incorporation of local concepts, including Chinese concepts, into Western or mainstream social science.