Title: Culture and social transformations in reform era China /
Authors: Cao, Tian Yu, 1941-; Zhong, Xueping, 1956-; Liao, Kebin, 1961-
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Social change China History; Social values China History; Political culture China History; China Civilization; China Social conditions; China Politics and government; China History Influence.
Abstract: In the face of social and economic changes since the late 1970s, what is China transforming toward? Written by some of the leading intellectuals and thinkers, these essays re-examine the extent to which three major cultural legacies can function as cultural resources under the changed social and economic conditions of the reform era.
Contents: pt. 1. "Consider the other more important than the self" : Liang Shuming's view of Confucian ethics / Chen Lai -- The basic form, actual form, and potential form of neo-Confucianism : considering the historical function and practical significance of neo-Confucianism / Liao Kebin -- Individual identification and the realm of moral character / Liu Dong -- Classical and modern readings of Laozi's Ziran / Liu Xiaogan -- The isomorphism of family and state and the integration of church and state : on the differences between the Confucian political tradition and democratic politics / Shih Yuan-Kang -- Confucian experience and philosophical discourse : reflections on some aporiae in contemporary neo-Confucianism / Joell Thoraval -- pt. 2. "Westernization" vs. "sinicization" : an eneffaceable paradox within China's modernization process / Yu Keping -- Contradictions within enlightenment ideas / Xu Jilin -- Rural reconstruction, the nation-state, and China's modernity problem : reflections on Liang Shuming's rural reconstruction theory and its practice / Lu Xinyu -- Who is afraid of Lu Xun? : the politics of "debates about Lu Xun" and the question of his legacy in post-Revolution China / Zhong Xueping -- Progress theory : the constraint on China's cultural Renaissance / He Qing --