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Ma, Licheng

 
9789814656382: Leading Schools of Thought in Contemporary China
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9814656380 ISBN 13 : 9789814656382
Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

The evolution of China's intellectual landscape, especially the battles among different influential social and political ideas, sheds light on its history. Leading Schools of Thought in Contemporary China offers a close-up look of eight major schools of thought that swept across China between 1978 and 2008, ranging from Deng Xiaoping's thoughts to Neo-Confucianism. Subject to unrelenting debates among both scholars and the general public, the popularity of these ideas waxed and waned throughout those turbulent decades. They have two things in common. First, they are all problem-oriented insofar as they carry their advocates' hopes of finding in them solutions to both new and old problems the country has faced. Second, while richly informed by such traditions as authoritarianism and Confucianism that have long held sway in much of Asia, including China, these ideas also reveal the deep influence of, and even affinity with, some of the most influential social and political theories in the Western tradition, including liberalism, socialism and conservatism. Readers will find in the continuing contestation among these theories in the marketplace of ideas not only much of what is exciting about the intellectual scene in China today, but also clues about China's future.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The evolution of China's intellectual landscape, especially the battles among different influential social and political ideas, sheds light on its history. Leading Schools of Thought in Contemporary China offers a close-up look of eight major schools of thought that swept across China between 1978 and 2008, ranging from Deng Xiaoping's thoughts to Neo-Confucianism. Subject to unrelenting debates among both scholars and the general public, the popularity of these ideas waxed and waned throughout those turbulent decades. They have two things in common. First, they are all problem-oriented insofar as they carry their advocates' hopes of finding in them solutions to both new and old problems the country has faced. Second, while richly informed by such traditions as authoritarianism and Confucianism that have long held sway in much of Asia, including China, these ideas also reveal the deep influence of, and even affinity with, some of the most influential social and political theories in the Western tradition, including liberalism, socialism and conservatism. Readers will find in the continuing contestation among these theories in the marketplace of ideas not only much of what is exciting about the intellectual scene in China today, but also clues about China's future.

Revue de presse

The book is valuable, first, because the author has an impressive knowledge of Chinese political thought. The author cuts through the sometimes bewildering and unfounded speculation of pundits and commentators to provide readers with critical views concerning China's reform: views originating within China itself. The range of primary source materials used in this study is truly incredible. The author's analyses incorporate the intellectual influences on Chinese politics from within and outside of China. Second, the book is well organized, with each of its eight chapters focusing on one of the eight major schools of political thought. With engaging depth, the book offers a richly conceived guide to each of the sets of beliefs animating contemporary intellectual discourse and explains how each camp addresses salient issues in China's transformation. Readers will benefit from the author's insights and critical analysis on the ideas shaping modern China's dramatic transformation. --The China Journal

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Éditeur
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9814656380
ISBN 13 
9789814656382
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
236
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
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