Au-Yeung Chi-ying. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includqes bibliographical references (leaves 143-161). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION / The Issue --- p.1 / The Case of Sun Ben wen --- p.10 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2 --- Cultural Environment and Social Life --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3 --- Social Change As Cultural Change --- p.24 / Chapter 2.4 --- Culture and Social Change in Modern China --- p.28 / Chapter 2.5 --- Social Progress: Towards a Modern Society --- p.33 / Chapter 2.6 --- Social Reconstruction: Man Made Social Changes --- p.38 / Chapter 2.7 --- Conclusion --- p.39 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN MODERN CHINA: CULTURE AND POLITICS / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2 --- Defining Social Problems --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3 --- Cultural Maladjustment: The Cause of Social Problems in Modern China --- p.44 / Chapter 3.4 --- Rural Problem: A Cultural Problem --- p.50 / Economic Problems / Educational Problems / Problems of Public Health / Problems of Collective Organizational Forms / Chapter 3.5 --- Rural Problem: A Political Problem --- p.59 / Chapter 3.6 --- Conclusion --- p.62 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- "SOCIOLOGISTS AND THE STATE: THE CASE OF THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY" / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.64 / Chapter 4.2 --- "Establishment of the Sociology Department, 1928 " --- p.65 / Chapter 4.3 --- Closures of the Sociology Department in the 1930s --- p.73 / The 1932 Crisis / The 1936 Crisis / Chapter 4.4 --- "The Ministry of Society and the Re-opening of the Sociology Department, 1941 " --- p.82 / Chapter 4.5 --- Conclusion --- p.89 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- LIMITED ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ACADEMIC SOCIOLOGISTS IN REPUBLICAN CHINA / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.92 / Chapter 5.2 --- Sun Benwen's Cultural Eclecticism --- p.93 / Liang Shuming's Cultural Conservatism / Chen Xujing's Wholesale Westernization / Sun Benwen's Cultural Eclecticism / Chapter 5.3 --- Academic Sociologists in the Chinese Sociological Society --- p.103 / The Liberal Independent Critic Group / The Chinese Sociological Society / Chapter 5.4 --- Limited Achievements of the Sociology Department --- p.115 / Chapter 5.5 --- Conclusion --- p.125 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- CONCLUSION / Problems of the Nationalist Government --- p.127 / Limitations of the Academic Sociologists --- p.135 / SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.143 / GLOSSARY --- p.162