内容简介
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.