Culture and Social Transformations

Theoretical Framework and Chinese Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-26050-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Ideas, History, and Modern China

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 cultural and social roots of the reform. It does so for the purpose of further exploring whether or not it is possible to imagine alternatives. Contributors to this second volume of “Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China” address these questions by exploring some of the most contentiously debated topics including liberalism, human rights, rule of law, the state, capitalism, and socialism.

Zielgruppe

All interested in reform era China, the cultural and social roots of the reform, and major theoretical debates about the nature and direction of the reform.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cao, Tianyu

Zhong, Xueping

Kebin, Liao

Wang, Ban

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Social and Cultural Roots of the Reforms
CAO Tianyu and ZHONG Xueping

Part I

Modernism, Modernity, and Individualism
NAN Fan
Subaltern Literature: Theory and Practice (2004-2009)
LI Yunlei
The “Crime” of Lu Xun, Anti-Enlightenment, and Chinese Modernity: Criticism of Liu Xiaofeng’s “Christian Theology”
LU Xinyu
From Charting the Revolution to Charter 2008: From Maoist Discourse to De-politicization
Daniel F. VUKOVICH
The Transformation of Chinese University Culture: History, Present, and Path
LIAO Kebin

Part II

Academic Discourse, Official Ideology, and Institutional Metamorphoses: Reflections on Contemporary Chinese Legal Discourses and Reality
YU Xingzhong
The Flight to Rights: 1990s China and Beyond
Rebecca E. KARL
Human Rights, Revolutionary Legacy, and Politics in China
WANG Ban
Democracy: Lyric Poem and Construction Blueprint
HAN Shaogong

Part III

Rereading “Commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Ming Fall”
HAN Yuhai
The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It
CAI Xiang
Post-Socialism Revisited: Reflections on “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics,” Its Past, Present, and Future
Arif DIRLIK
Reinterpreting Capitalist Restoration in China: Toward a Historical Critique of “Actually Existing Market Socialism”
Yiching WU
The Western Slump and Global Reorganization
Robert WADE
An Argument for “Participatory Socialism”
LIN Chun

Über Autor(innen)

Cao Tianyu, Ph.D. 1987, University of Cambridge, is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He has published monographs, edited books and articles including The Chinese Model of Modern Development (2005).

Zhong Xueping, Ph.D. 1993, University of Iowa, is Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Tufts University. She has published monographs, edited books and articles including Mainstream Culture Refocused (2010).

Liao Kebin, Ph.D. 1989, Hangzhou University, is Professor of Classic Chinese Literature at Peking University. He has published monographs, edited books and articles including Mingdai Wenxue Fugu Yundong Yanjiu (2008).

Ban Wang, Ph.D. 1993, UCLA, is William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His major publications include Words and Their Stories (2011).