This book puts forward the concept of "publicness" thatis
deeply embedded in daily societal life, and takes it asa starting
point to observe and analyze the specific socialrepresentation of
publicness in the daily life of China andJapan. Meanwhile, this
book tries to capture and graspthe new trends of publicness in
these societies. On thisbasis, the book also explores the
possibilities of using"publicness" as a concept for analyzing
society, and thesignificance of the publicness research to
sociology theoryin nowadays.
