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Worrying about China : the language of Chinese critical inquiry / Gloria Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Gloria, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Chinese--20th century.
- Philosophy, Chinese.
- Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What can we do about China? Gloria Davies pursues this inquiry through a wide range of contemporary topics, including the changing fortunes of radicalism, the peculiarities of Chinese postmodernism, shifts within official discourse, attempts to revive Confucianism for present-day China, and the historically problematic engagement of Chinese intellectuals with Western ideas.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter one. Worrying about China
- Chapter two. Divided over China
- Chapter three. Theory and Taxonomy: A Post-Maoist Pursuit of Cultural Integrity
- Chapter four. Reasoning after Mao
- Chapter five. A Poetics of Inquiry
- Notes
- Glossary
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674262935
- 067426293X
- 9780674030237
- 0674030230
- OCLC:
- 1013963065
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