David L Wank
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Wank |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wank |
| SIGNATURE | WANK D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hitotsubashi University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making Religion, Making the State
This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social science to develop a new approach to the study of state and religion in modern and contemporary China
The Politics of a Reviving Buddhist Temple
Research Article| May 01 2006 The Politics of a Reviving Buddhist Temple: State, Association, and Religion in Southeast China Yoshiko Ashiwa; Yoshiko Ashiwa [email protected] is professor of anthropology at Hitotsubashi University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David L. Wank David L. Wank [email protected] is professor of sociology at Sophia University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
The Globalization of Chinese Buddhism
The article examines the globalization of China's Buddhism. Such new modern values as science and progress, along with competition from Christianity stimulated a modern reform of Buddhism in China in the early twentieth century that was then carried abroad through emigration and other transnational movement. This paper examines the ongoing interactions among Buddhists across difference nation-state spaces that have constituted the spread of this …
Social Connections in China
Guanxi, translated as 'social connections,' or 'social networks,' is among the most important studied phenomena in China today. Guanxi lies at the heart of China's social order, its economic structure, and its changing institutional landscape. It is considered important in every realm of life, from politics to business, and officialdom to street life. This 2002 volume offers scholarly thinking on the subject by top China sociologists whose work o…
The Trading Crowd
The Chinese Diaspora and Mainland China
Commodifying Communism
Introduction 1. Orientation of the study 2. Institutional commodification: concepts and categories of analysts Part I. Instituted Processes of Commercial Clientelism: 3. The structure of commercial opportunity of Xiamen 4. Symbiotic transactions between private firms and public units 5. Enhancing expectations: the social organization of contracts 6. Entrepreneurial paths and capital: personal attributes as competitive advantage Part II. Economic …
China's New Business Elite
Political sociology and contemporary China
Images of ‘state and society’ have informed several generations of North American scholarship on China's communist polity. They express a concern for how power, authority, and influence are shaped by the interaction of party‐state efforts to control and mobilize the population with the responses, interests, and strategies of its citizens. While these images first came into focus in the 1960s, they reflect classical paradigms of political sociolog…
The Institutional Process of Market Clientelism
Patron—client ties are pervasive in the post-Mao economy between entrepreneurs operating private firms and cadres staffing the state's administrative, distributive and production organs. The burgeoning literature on private business is converging on a view of them as localized exchanges of commercial wealth for bureaucratic power. These deviations from central policies and standard procedures enable entrepreneurs to manage their dependence on loc…
Policing Shanghai 1927-1937
The Politics of a Reviving Buddhist Temple
Research Article| May 01 2006 The Politics of a Reviving Buddhist Temple: State, Association, and Religion in Southeast China Yoshiko Ashiwa; Yoshiko Ashiwa [email protected] is professor of anthropology at Hitotsubashi University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David L. Wank David L. Wank [email protected] is professor of sociology at Sophia University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
The Trading Crowd
Political sociology and contemporary China
Images of ‘state and society’ have informed several generations of North American scholarship on China's communist polity. They express a concern for how power, authority, and influence are shaped by the interaction of party‐state efforts to control and mobilize the population with the responses, interests, and strategies of its citizens. While these images first came into focus in the 1960s, they reflect classical paradigms of political sociolog…
The Institutional Process of Market Clientelism
Patron—client ties are pervasive in the post-Mao economy between entrepreneurs operating private firms and cadres staffing the state's administrative, distributive and production organs. The burgeoning literature on private business is converging on a view of them as localized exchanges of commercial wealth for bureaucratic power. These deviations from central policies and standard procedures enable entrepreneurs to manage their dependence on loc…
Policing Shanghai 1927-1937
China's New Business Elite
Political sociology and contemporary China
Images of ‘state and society’ have informed several generations of North American scholarship on China's communist polity. They express a concern for how power, authority, and influence are shaped by the interaction of party‐state efforts to control and mobilize the population with the responses, interests, and strategies of its citizens. While these images first came into focus in the 1960s, they reflect classical paradigms of political sociolog…
The Chinese Diaspora and Mainland China
Commodifying Communism
Introduction 1. Orientation of the study 2. Institutional commodification: concepts and categories of analysts Part I. Instituted Processes of Commercial Clientelism: 3. The structure of commercial opportunity of Xiamen 4. Symbiotic transactions between private firms and public units 5. Enhancing expectations: the social organization of contracts 6. Entrepreneurial paths and capital: personal attributes as competitive advantage Part II. Economic …
The Trading Crowd
Social Connections in China
Guanxi, translated as 'social connections,' or 'social networks,' is among the most important studied phenomena in China today. Guanxi lies at the heart of China's social order, its economic structure, and its changing institutional landscape. It is considered important in every realm of life, from politics to business, and officialdom to street life. This 2002 volume offers scholarly thinking on the subject by top China sociologists whose work o…
The Globalization of Chinese Buddhism
The article examines the globalization of China's Buddhism. Such new modern values as science and progress, along with competition from Christianity stimulated a modern reform of Buddhism in China in the early twentieth century that was then carried abroad through emigration and other transnational movement. This paper examines the ongoing interactions among Buddhists across difference nation-state spaces that have constituted the spread of this …
The Politics of a Reviving Buddhist Temple
Research Article| May 01 2006 The Politics of a Reviving Buddhist Temple: State, Association, and Religion in Southeast China Yoshiko Ashiwa; Yoshiko Ashiwa [email protected] is professor of anthropology at Hitotsubashi University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David L. Wank David L. Wank [email protected] is professor of sociology at Sophia University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Making Religion, Making the State
This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social science to develop a new approach to the study of state and religion in modern and contemporary China
Political science (9 works) · China (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works)