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Uniform Title Wen hua yu she hui zhuan xing. English.
Title Culture and social transformations in reform era China / edited by Cao Tian Yu, Zhong Xueping, Liao Kebin
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 447 pages)
Series Ideas, history, and modern China, 1875-9394 ; v. 2
Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 2. 1875-9394
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
pt. 3. "One and three, three and one" : the impact of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese modernity / Tang Shaojie -- Why did the Cultural Revolution end? / Han Shaogong -- A unique transcendence : Deng Xiaoping's China and Mao Zedong's China / Gong Yuzhi -- The impact of the Cultural Revolution on reform era political culture / Roderick MacFarquhar -- The influence of China's cultural tradition of revolution on reform-period conceptions of modernity / Cao Tian Yu -- The Chinese Revolution and the self identity of the Chinese nation / Lin Chun -- 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 -- China's social transformation and two types of modernity / Gao Like -- Confusian Marxism and its implications in the current age of globalization / Chen Weigang -- The Cold War, imperial aesthetics, and area studies / Wang Ban -- Themes for China : modern arts, modern conflict / Marshall Berman
Summary Leading scholars examine the interplay between the ideological reorientation and radical social changes in contemporary China in terms of the interpretation, appropriation and mobilization of three major cultural resources (traditional, May Fourth, and socialist) by various social groups
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the Chinese
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Subject Social change -- China -- History -- 20th century
Social values -- China -- History -- 20th century
Political culture -- China -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY.
Civilization
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political culture
Politics and government
Social change
Social conditions
Social values
SUBJECT China -- Civilization -- 1976-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010765
China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024185
China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024175
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Influence
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cao, Tian Yu, 1941-
Zhong, Xueping, 1956-
Liao, Kebin, 1961-
ISBN 9789047428619
9047428617
9789004175167
9004175164
1282786334
9781282786332