Chang Kyung-Sup, "The Logic of Compressed Modernity"
English | ISBN: 1509552898 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Most theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of Western societies since the late medieval period, but these theories are of limited value for understanding the development of societies in Asia and other parts of the world, where the process of modernization took place under different circumstances and often in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries but in decades. Asian societies have been propelled into modernity too, but theirs is a compressed modernity, which displays very different traits.
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