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Imaginary Worlds and Imperial Power : The Case of China.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunaj, L̕ubomír.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- New and ambitious approaches to contemporary China, informed by perspectives taken from civilizational analysis and the specific concept of social imaginaries.This collection of essays by some of today's most prominent scholars on Chinese society, culture, and philosophy offers unusually comprehensive perspectives on contemporary China--a "broad.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes
- References
- Introduction: Broadening Our Way to China
- China's "Civilizational Legacy" in Modernity
- Chapter Summaries
- A Concluding Note
- Part I
- 1. The Chinese Challenge to Historical Sociology
- Historical Sociology as an Evolving Discipline
- The Otherness of China: Prejudice, Illusion, or Invitation to Thought?
- Continuities and Discontinuities I: State Power and Imperial Rule
- Continuities and Discontinuities II: Religion and Civilization
- Continuities and Discontinuities III: The Ever-Revived and Cross-Cultural Empire
- Contexts and Conditions of State Formation
- Center and Elites
- A Confucian-Legalist Key to History?
- Concluding Reflections: The Revolutionary Road of State Formation
- Part II: ImagiInariIes, ContiInuiItiIes, and ImagiInary ContiInuiItiIes
- 2. China in Eurasia: Goody, Árnason, and Imaginaries of the Landmass
- An Africanist Critic of Eurocentrism: John Rankine Goody (1919 to 2015)
- China as a Civilizational Nation
- The Problem of Chinese Inner Asia
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- 3. Early Modern Periodizations and Their Philosophical Consequences: Figuring the Seventeenth-Century Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical Problem
- The Meaning of the Ming-Qing Transition
- The Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical (and Historiographical) Problem
- Ming and Qing as Early Modern
- 4. The Preconceived Empire: China's Imperial Experience and Its Current Relevance
- The Relevance of the Past
- Legacy of Preimperial Thought
- Ideas and Their Implementation
- The Modern Rupture and Its Price
- Rediscovering the Past: Advantages and Challenges Ahead
- References.
- Part III: CiIviIliIzatiIon, MmoderniIzatiIon, and NnormatiIviIty
- 5. China's Path to Modernization: Implications for Global Governance
- From Chinese Dream to Chinese Path to Modernization: A Diplomatic Turn
- The Global-Politics Dimension of the Chinese Path to Modernization
- "New Forms of Human Civilization": Civilization-State Diplomacy in the Global South
- Conclusion
- 6. Árnason, Modern Confucianism, and the Cultural Conditionality of Modernization
- Árnason and the Renewal of the Civilization Paradigm
- Transcultural Comparison, DiscursiveTranslations and the Method of Post-Comparative Sublation
- China and the Multiple Modernities Theory
- Conclusion: The "Confucian Combination" and Its Distinct Connotations
- Acknowledgment
- 7. Multiple Modernities - A Legitimate Heir to the Axial Age?
- Part IVv: Ttoward ConstrucCtiIve Eengagements
- 8. Chinese Civilizational Identity: Ideological Models of the World and the Sacralization of a Confucian Huaxia Identity
- The Evolution of Huaxia Identity and GeoPolitical Models of the World
- The Western Zhou
- The Spring and Autumn Period
- The Warring States Period
- The Western Han
- Confucian Ideology
- Han Dynasty Civilizational Identity
- Tianxia and Contemporary Rearticulations of Chinese Civilizational Identity
- 9. The Politics of Sincerity, or, Why Is the Legacy of Pre-Qin Confucianism Worth Fighting For?
- The Issue of Structural Insincerity
- The Vertical Structure: Pre-Qin Confucianism, Meillassoux, Latour
- The Coming Exemplary Person: The Radical Legacy of Pre-Qin Confucianism
- The Death Drive in the Global Capitalist Order
- Confucianism with the Courage of Hopelessness
- 10. Tribunals, Trials, and Windows: De-Orwellizing Western Perspectives on China
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- List of Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-558-0427-0
- OCLC:
- 1545645280
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