On China's cultural transformation / edited by Yu Keping ; translated by Christopher Heselton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yu, Keping, editor.

Heselton, Christopher, translator.

Series:

Issues in contemporary Chinese thought and culture ; Volume 5.

Issues in Contemporary Chinese Thought and Culture ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Civilization.

China.

China--Intellectual history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

China’s economy and social system has witnessed tremendous transformations since late 1970s. So is China’s culture. Centering on the cultural transformations of China since late 1970s and covering diverse of topics in the field, this collection of articles presents a multi-dimensional narrative on the dynamics, dilemmas and characteristics involving this giant process.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 The Logic of Chinese Cultural Development in a Variable World of Modernization and Globalization / Keping Yu

2 Philosophical Reflections on the Course of Chinese Cultural Modernization / Xianghai Li

3 Cultural Reflections on the Popularity of Chinese Learning / Lin Zhao

4 Problems with Confucianism in Building a Modern Culture / Yongjie Peng

5 Confucianism, Chinese Marxism, and Chinese Modernization / Qiyong Guo

6 The Modern Values of Folklore: Chinese Modern Literature and the Morphology of Folk Culture / Guangdong Wang

7 What Is Reality? How Should We Think? One Understanding of the “State of Thought” in Contemporary Literature / Yao Wang

8 Between History and Modernity: Thoughts on the State of Modern Literary Studies and Criticism / Qinghua Zhang

9 The Contemporary Values of Literary Ecology and Ecological Critique / Yuechuan Wang

10 A Realm Divided in Six: Chinese Literature Today / Xiaoming Wang

11 What Is “Anthropology” as I Understand It? / Mingming Wang

12 The Direction of Modern Chinese Religion / Xinping Zhuo

13 Rewriting Women: Writing Gender and Cultural Space in the 1980s and 1990s / Jinhua Dai

14 Deconstructing Ethnic Minorities in China: Eliminating Orientalism or Re-Orientalizing? / Jiao Pan

15 On the Formation and Evolution of Chinese National Cultural Security Issues in the Twentieth Century / Huilin Hu

16 A New Understanding of “Soft Power” / Xiangping Liu.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30888-1

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004308886 DOI