China's great transformation : selected essays on Confucianism, modernization, and democracy / Ambrose Yeo-chi King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jin, Yaoji, 1935- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucianism and state--China.

Confucianism and state.

China--Civilization.

China.

China--Intellectual life.

China--Politics and government.

Weber, Max, 1864-1920.

Weber, Max.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xxvii, 335 pages))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Any consideration of China's cultural modernity must begin with a rethinking of traditional Chinese civilization in its orientation and the problems that it has to face in the modern age. This book examines how Confucian traditions have shaped modernity in East Asia. A leading sociologist, Ambrose Y. C. King discusses how China and East Asia developed a model of modern civilization distinct from the Western model of modernization which involves not only a process of deconstructing the cultural tradition but also a process of reconstructing it. He shows how the experience of modernization diverges within different Chinese societies, namely Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan. By highlighting the impact of Confucianism on the direction of modernity in Chinese societies, he argues that Confucianism contains the seeds of modernization and transformation and that in the right institutional settings these seeds could bear fruit to influence positively the course of development. The chapters of the book also explore Confucian networks and the development of capitalist economies, democratic governance, and moral education. The author focuses his analyses on how Confucian ideas and values underpinning the foundation of East Asian societies including social civility, political governance, the role of the family, individual self-cultivation, and moral regulation, matter to the modern social and political transformations of Chinese societies today.

Contents:

The individual and group in Confucianism : a relational perspective

Shame as an incomplete conception of Chinese culture : a study of face

The Confucian paradigm of man : a sociological view

Guanxi and network building : a sociological interpretation

The role of intellectuals in Chinese state socialism

"modernization" and "modernity" : the construction of a modern Chinese civilizational order

Administrative absorption of politics in Hong Kong : emphasis on the grassroots level

A non-paradigmatic search for democracy in a post-Confucian culture : the case of Taiwan

State Confucianism and its transformation : the restructuring of the state-society relation in Taiwan

The transformation of Confucianism in the post-Confucian era : the emergence of rationalistic traditionalism in Hong Kong

Max weber and the question of development of the modern state in chIna

Confucianism, modernity, and Asian democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789882377462

9882377467

OCLC:

1032712106