Culture & History of Postrevolutionary China The Perspective of Global Modernity / Arif Dirlik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dirlik, Arif.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Civilization--2002-.

China.

China--Civilization--1976-2002.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 341 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong; Chinese University Press, 2011.

Summary:

The essays in this volume grew from a series of talks delivered in late 2010 as the Liang Qichao Memorial Lectures at the Academy of National Learning (Guoxue yuan) of Tsinghua University, Beijing.Offering critical perspectives on a number of ideological issues that have figured prominently in Chinese intellectual discourse since the beginning of the so-called "reform and opening" (gaige kaifang) in the late 1970s, these essays range widely in subject matter, from Marxist historiography to sociology and anthropology in China to guoxue/national studies.Together they are conceived as different windows into a basic problem: the deployment of culture and history in postrevolutionary Chinese thought. Dirlik touches on a number of themes, including the repudiation of the revolutionary past after 1978, which has led to a rise of cultural nationalism. He further places these developments within a global context, ultimately making a case methodologically for "worlding" China: bringing China into the world, and the world into China.

Notes:

"The essays in this volume were delivered October/November 2010 as the Liang Qichao Memorial Lectures at the Academy of National Learning (Guoxue yuan) of Tsinghua University, Beijing."-- ix.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789629969462

9629969467

OCLC:

899266301