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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• HerausgeberIn: Cheek, Timothy,; Fogel, Joshua,; Ownby, David,
• MitwirkendeR: Ge, Sun,; Gongqin, Xiao,; Jian, Rong,; Jilin, Xu,; Lai, Chen,; Liqun, Qian,; Ming, Chen,; Qing, Jiang,; Qing, Liu,; Shaoguang, Wang,; Wenming, Tang,; Xia, Cai,; Xiang, Zhang,; Yang, Gan,; Yuhua, Guo,; Zhongqiu, Yao,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Thinking China in the Age of Xi Jinping -- PART I: THE CHALLENGE -- 1. "Unifying the Three Traditions" in the New Era (selection) (2005) -- PART II: LIBERAL VOICES -- 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) -- PART III: LEFT VOICES -- 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) -- PART IV: NEW CONFUCIAN VOICES -- 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