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Rethinking China's rise : a liberal critique / Xu Jilin ; edited and translated by David Ownby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Xu, Jilin, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge China library.
- The Cambridge China library
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Civilization--2002-.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In English and Chinese.
- Summary:
- China's rise to power is the signal event of the twenty-first century, and this volume offers a contemporary view of this nation in ascendancy from the inside. Eight recent essays by Xu Jilin, a popular historian and one of China's most prominent public intellectuals, critique China's rejection of universal values and the nation's embrace of Chinese particularism, the rise of the cult of the state and the acceptance of the historicist ideas of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss. Xu's work is distinct both from better-known voices of dissent and also from the 'New Left' perspectives, offering instead a liberal reaction to the complexity of China's rise. Yet this work is not a shrill denunciation of Xu's intellectual enemies, but rather a subtle and heartfelt call for China to accept its status as a great power and join the world as a force for good.
- Contents:
- What Kind of Civilization? China at a Crossroads
- The Spector of Leviathan: A Critique of Chinese Statism since 2000
- Universal Civilization, or Chinese Values? A Critique of Historicist Thought since 2000
- After the Great Disembedding: Family-State, Tianxia, and Self
- What Body for Confucianism's Lonely Soul?
- The New Tianxia: Rebuilding China's Internal and External Order
- Two Kinds of Enlightenment: Civilizational Consciousness or Cultural Consciousnes
- Li Shenzhi: The Last Scholar-Official, the Last Hero.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jun 2018).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-62167-8
- 1-108-55696-5
- 1-108-64065-6
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