Revisiting the Adapting F.T?nnies'Gemeinschaft Theory to the Chinese Context:Taking YANG Mao-chun's Proposal of Concept of"Market Town District"as the Focus of Investigation
The issue of the adapting F.Tönnies'Gemeinschaft theory to the Chinese context is of great contempo-rary significance,and needs to be revisited and elaborated on the basis of new cases.The concept of"Market Town Dis-trict"proposed by YANG Mao-chun aims to emphasize both common factors and regional factors,reflecting both the fo-cus on common factors in Tennessee's Gemeinschaft theory and the focus on regional factors in R.E.Park's Community theory.It is not only an important manifestation of the adapting R.E.Park's Community theory to the Chinese context,but also a special contribution to the adapting F.Tönnies'Gemeinschaft theory to the Chinese context.Sorting out Yang Mao-chun's concept of"Market Town District"and its unique and important academic influence further confirms and deepens the understanding that"the introduction of the concept of gemeinschaft in German language,the introduction of the concept of community in the English-speaking world,as well as the proposal of concept of community in the Chinese context have a complex intersection relationship",and also helps to clarify the issue of the adapting F.Tönnies'Gemein-schaft theory to the Chinese context.
Market Town DistrictYANG Mao-chunGemeinschaftF.TönniesCommunityR.E.Park