Leading schools of thought in contemporary China / Ma Licheng ; translation by Jing L. Liu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ma, Licheng, author.

Standardized Title:

Dang dai Zhongguo ba zhong she hui si chao. English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Chinese--20th century.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Political science--China--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Political science.

Philosophy.

History.

China.

Political science--Philosophy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 215 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2016]

Language Note:

Translated from the Chinese.

Summary:

The evolution of China's intellectual landscape, especially the battles among influential social and political ideas, sheds Sight on the country's 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-Confucianisin. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Deng Xiaoping's southern tour: socialism with Chinese characteristics

Defenders of late Mao Zedong thought: the old left school

The new left school

Democracy in China: the democratic socialist school

Freedom as new cultural heritage: the liberal school of thought

Bending branches and the rebounding of nationalism: the nationalist school of thought

The surging tide of populism: the populist school of thought

The political demands of mainland neo-Confucians: the neo-Confucian school.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814656382

9814656380

OCLC:

925295365