Voices from the Chinese Century : Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China / Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, Joshua Fogel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cheek, Timothy, Editor.

Fogel, Joshua, Editor.

Ownby, David, Editor.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

China--Intellectual life--21st century.

China.

China--Politics and government--2002-.

China--Social conditions--2000-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English and In Chinese.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

China's increasing prominence on the global stage has caused consternation and controversy among Western thinkers, especially since the financial crisis of 2008. But what do Chinese intellectuals themselves have to say about their country's newfound influence and power? Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window into public debate in China today on fundamental questions of China and the world-past, present, and future.The voices in this volume include figures from each of China's main intellectual clusters: liberals, the New Left, and New Confucians. In genres from scholarly analyses to social media posts, often using Party-approved language that hides indirect criticism, these essayists offer a wide range of perspectives on how to understand China's history and its place in the twenty-first-century world. They explore questions such as the relationship of political and economic reforms; the distinctiveness of China's history and what to take from its traditions; what can or should be learned from the West; and how China fits into today's eruption of populist anger and challenges to the global order. The fifteen original translations in this volume not only offer insight into contemporary China but also prompt us to ask what Chinese intellectuals might have to teach Europe and North America about the world's most pressing problems.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction: Thinking China in the Age of Xi Jinping

1. "Unifying the Three Traditions" in the New Era (selection) (2005)

2. Liberalism in the Chinese Context (2004)

3. A China Bereft of Thought (2013)

4. Original Intentions Start with the People (2017)

5. "The Shadow of Communist Civilization": A Gongshi Wang ( Consensus Net) Interview (2013)

6. Advancing Constitutional Democracy Should Be the Mission of the Chinese Communist Party (2013)

7. "I Am a Child of the Nineteenth Century": The Last Twenty Years of Wang Yuanhua's Life (2008)

8. Mao Zedong and His Era (2012)

9. From Authoritarian Government to Constitutional Democracy (2012)

10. Liberalism: For the Aristocrats or for the People? (1999)

11. Representative Democracy and Representational Democracy (2014)

12. The Significance of Borders (2017)

13. Kang Youwei and Institutional Confucianism (2014)

14. A Century of Confucianism (2014)

15. Only Confucians Can Make a Place for Modern Women (2015)

Glossary of Names and Terms

List of Essays Translated in This Volume, with Original Titles

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780231551250

0231551258

OCLC:

1132405078