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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453321903321

Titolo

Culture and social transformations : theoretical framework and Chinese context / / edited by Cao Tianyu [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : BRILL, , [2013]

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26051-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

Ideas, history, and modern China

Altri autori (Persone)

CaoTianyu

Disciplina

951

Soggetti

Political culture - China - History - 20th century

Social change - China - History - 20th century

Social values - China - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

China Civilization 1976-2002

China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 Influence

China Politics and government 1976-2002

China Social conditions 1976-2000

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction The Social and Cultural Roots of the Reforms / Cao Tianyu and Zhong Xueping -- 1 Modernism, Modernity, and Individualism / Nan Fan -- 2 Subaltern Literature: Theory and Practice (2004–2009) / Li Yunlei -- 3 The “Crime” of Lu Xun, Anti-Enlightenment, and Chinese Modernity: A Critique of Liu Xiaofeng’s “Christian Theology” / Lu Xinyu -- 4 From Charting the Revolution to Charter 2008: Discourse, Liberalism, De-Politicization / Daniel F. Vukovich -- 5 The Transformation of Chinese University Culture: History, Present, and Path / Liao Kebin -- 6 Academic Discourse, Official Ideology, and Institutional Metamorphoses: Reflections on Contemporary Chinese Legal Discourses and Reality / Yu Xingzhong -- 7 The Flight to Rights: 1990's China and Beyond / Rebecca E. Karl -- 8 Human Rights, Revolutionary Legacy, and Politics in China / Ban Wang -- 9 Democracy: Lyric Poem and Construction Blueprint / Han Shaogong -- 10 Rereading “Commemorating the Three



Hundredth Anniversary of the Fall of the Ming” / Han Yuhai -- 11 The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It / Cai Xiang -- 12 Post-Socialism Revisited: Reflections on “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics,” Its Past, Present, and Future / Arif Dirlik -- 13 Reinterpreting “Capitalist Restoration” in China: Toward a Historical Critique of “Actually Existing Market Socialism” / Yiching Wu -- 14 The Western Slump and Global Reorganization / Robert Wade -- 15 An Argument for “Participatory Socialism” / Lin Chun -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

As China enters the second decade of the 21st century, it faces tremendous challenges and crisis. How did China arrive at this point of crisis? How do we understand the nature of the challenges? More than any existing study of reform-era China, this volume offers a theoretical discussion of the cultural and social roots of the reform. It does so for the purpose of further exploring whether or not it is possible to imagine alternatives. Contributors to this second volume of “Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China” address these questions by exploring some of the most contentiously debated topics including liberalism, human rights, rule of law, the state, capitalism, and socialism.