Culture and social transformations : : theoretical framework and Chinese context / / edited by Cao Tianyu [and three others].

As China enters the second decade of the 21st century, it faces tremendous challenges and crisis. How did China arrive at this point of crisis? How do we understand the nature of the challenges? More than any existing study of reform-era China, this volume offers a theoretical discussion of the cult...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : BRILL,, [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Ideas, history, and modern China
Ideas, History, and Modern China 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction The Social and Cultural Roots of the Reforms / Cao Tianyu and Zhong Xueping
  • 1 Modernism, Modernity, and Individualism / Nan Fan
  • 2 Subaltern Literature: Theory and Practice (2004–2009) / Li Yunlei
  • 3 The “Crime” of Lu Xun, Anti-Enlightenment, and Chinese Modernity: A Critique of Liu Xiaofeng’s “Christian Theology” / Lu Xinyu
  • 4 From Charting the Revolution to Charter 2008: Discourse, Liberalism, De-Politicization / Daniel F. Vukovich
  • 5 The Transformation of Chinese University Culture: History, Present, and Path / Liao Kebin
  • 6 Academic Discourse, Official Ideology, and Institutional Metamorphoses: Reflections on Contemporary Chinese Legal Discourses and Reality / Yu Xingzhong
  • 7 The Flight to Rights: 1990's China and Beyond / Rebecca E. Karl
  • 8 Human Rights, Revolutionary Legacy, and Politics in China / Ban Wang
  • 9 Democracy: Lyric Poem and Construction Blueprint / Han Shaogong
  • 10 Rereading “Commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Fall of the Ming” / Han Yuhai
  • 11 The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It / Cai Xiang
  • 12 Post-Socialism Revisited: Reflections on “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics,” Its Past, Present, and Future / Arif Dirlik
  • 13 Reinterpreting “Capitalist Restoration” in China: Toward a Historical Critique of “Actually Existing Market Socialism” / Yiching Wu
  • 14 The Western Slump and Global Reorganization / Robert Wade
  • 15 An Argument for “Participatory Socialism” / Lin Chun
  • Index.