Modernization of the Chinese past
By: editors, Mabel Lee and A.D. Syrokomla-Stefanowska.
Contributors: Lee, Mabel.; Stefanowska, A. D.
Series: The University of Sydney School of Asian Studies series -- no. 1.
Publisher: Wild Peony; [Distributed by] University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Broadway, Australia; Honolulu, Hawaii
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Confucianism -- China -- History -- 20th century; Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; China -- Politics and government -- 1949-; China -- Civilization -- 1949-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / B. Hendrischke; title: "Star wars" and the Confucian ethic / G. Davies; title: Confucianism and Deng's China / A. Chan; title: The invention of the modern Chinese self / J. Fitzgerald; title: Continuity in the relationship between law and administration? / S. Biddulph; title: Changes in Chinese discourse on political morality in the 1980s and 1990s / He Baogang; title: Secular Karma : the communist revolution understood in traditional Chinese terms / M. Elvin; title: Before tradition : the Book of Changes, Yang Lian's [yi] and the affirmation of the self through poetry / M. Lee; title: Traditional Chinese music in 1989 : the ART Cup / M. Lang; title: Towards self-reliance? a selective view of contemporary Chinese art / C. Roberts; title: Images of "feudal" marriage in recent Chinese art films / L. Mayo; title: Irrational belief among the Chinese élite / D. Kane; title: Qigong, Daoism and science : some contexts for the Qigong boom / B. Penny.