Kim Kyong-Dong and Establishment of Academic Sociology in Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Soo Bok Cheong
Keyword(s):  
Academic Sociology

“Living Ghosts” during the Nanjing Decade

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Y. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Poor Relief ◽  
Academic Sociology

This chapter underscores how Nationalist (GMD) assumptions about poor relief drew on the intellectual discourses that had developed in the previous decades. It begins with an overview of the intersections between academic sociology and the GMD government's relief agenda, before turning to the specific contours of changes in Beijing and Shanghai. The chapter also returns to the fate of the straw hut dwellers, picking up the narrative from the previous chapter. Here, efforts to reform poor relief tried to classify and organize the recipients of aid into discrete categories, but often failed to recognize poverty as a continuum of misery, difficult to compartmentalize. For the urban poor of Beijing and Shanghai, the GMD's decade in power would mean an uneasy combination of charity and coercion, help and punishment.

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