Culture and social transformations in reform era China
By: by eds. Cao Tianyu, Zhong Xueping, Liao Kebin.
Contributors: Cao, Tianyu.; Zhong, Xueping, 1956-; Liao, Kebin, 1961-
Series: Ideas, history, and modern China -- v. 2
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9789004175167
Subjects: Social change -- China -- History -- 20th century; Social values -- China -- History -- 20th century; Political culture -- China -- History -- 20th century; China -- Civilization -- 1976-2002; China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000; China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002; China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Influence
Work titles: Wen hua yu she hui zhuan xing. English
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. "Consider the other more important than the self" : Liang Shuming's view of Confucian ethics / Chen Lai; title: The basic form, actual form, and potential form of neo-Confucianism : considering the historical function and practical significance of neo-Confucianism / Liao Kebin; title: Individual identification and the realm of moral character / Liu Dong; title: Classical and modern readings of Laozi's Ziran / Liu Xiaogan; title: The isomorphism of family and state and the integration of church and state : on the differences between the Confucian political tradition and democratic politics / Shi Yuankang; title: Confucian experience and philosophical discourse : reflections on some aporiae in contemporary neo-Confucianism / Joel Thoraval; title: pt. 2. "Westernization" vs. "sinicization" : an eneffaceable paradox within China's modernization process / Yu Keping; title: Contradictions within enlightenment ideas / Xu Jilin; title: Rural reconstruction, the nation-state, and China's modernity problem : reflections on Liang Shuming's rural reconstruction theory and its practice / Lu Xinyu; title: 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; title: Progress theory : the constraint on China's cultural Renaissance / He Qing; title: pt. 3. "One and three, three and one" : the impact of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese modernity / Tang Shaojie; title: Why did the Cultural Revolution end? / Han Shaogong; title: A unique transcendence : Deng Xiaoping's China and Mao Zedong's China / Gong Yuzhi; title: The impact of the Cultural Revolution on reform era political culture / Roderick MacFarquhar; title: The influence of China's cultural tradition of revolution on reform-period conceptions of modernity / Cao Tianyu; title: The Chinese Revolution and the self identity of the Chinese nation / Lin Chun; title: Comments on Gong Yuzhi's "A unique transcendence" and Roderick MacFarquhar's "The impact of the Cultural Revolution on reform-era political culture" / Lin Chun; title: China's social transformation and two types of modernity / Gao Like; title: Confusian Marxism and its implications in the current age of globalization / Chen Weigang; title: The Cold War, imperial aesthetics, and area studies / Wang Ban; title: Themes for China : modern arts, modern conflict / Marshall Berman.