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Title Political science and Chinese political studies : the state of the field / Sujian Guo, editor
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2013

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Contents Introduction: Political Science and Chinese Political Studies -- The State of the Field / Sujian Guo -- Part 1. Overview of the State of the Field -- Chinese Political Studies: Overview of the State of the Field / Lynn T. White III -- Political Culture and the Study of Chinese Politics / Peter R. Moody -- Western Political Science Theories and the Development of Political Theories in China / Guangbin Yang and Miao Li -- Western Political Research Approaches and the Development of Political Science Methodology in China / Yuejin Jing and Guoqin Wang -- Environmental Politics in China: An Issue Area in Review / Fengshi Wu
Part 2. Methodologies in the Chinese Political Studies -- The Logics of Comparative Politics and the Development of Political Science in China / Yang Zhong -- Political Science Research on China: Making the Most of Diversity / Björn Alpermann -- Choices for Chinese Political Science: Methodological Positivism or Methodological Pluralism? / Jon R. Taylor -- The Perestroika Movement in American Political Science and Its Lessons for Chinese Political Studies / Shelley Rigger
Part 3. Scientification or Indigenization of Chinese Political Studies -- Reflections on Scientific Inquiry, Academic Freedom, and Enlightenment / Jeffrey C. Isaac -- The Dilemmas of China's Political Science in the Context of the Rise of China / Baogang He -- Politics Against Science: Reflections on the Study of Chinese Politics in Contemporary China / Guoguang Wu -- To 'Fall in Line' or To 'Grab': Thoughts on the Indigenization of Political Science / Shaoguang Wang -- Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let One Hundred Thoughts Contend: Political Science with Chinese Characteristics / Jon R. Taylor
Summary We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in China and its rising status in the world as well as changes in our ways of conducting research. As area studies specialists, we are no longer ""isolated"" from the larger disciplines of Political Science and International Relations (IR) but an integral part of them. This book contains theoretically innovative contributions by distinguished political scientists from inside and outside China, who together offer up-to-date overviews of the state of the f
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Political science -- China
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Political science
China
Form Electronic book
Author Guo, Sujian, 1957-
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