Rethinking China''s Rise - A Liberal Critique

List of contents

Preface; Editor and translator's introduction; 1. What kind of civilization? China at a crossroads; 2. The spector of leviathan: a critique of Chinese statism since 2000; 3. Universal civilization, or Chinese values? A critique of historicist thought since 2000; 4. After the 'Great Disembedding': family-state, tianxia, and self; 5. What body for Confucianism's lonely soul?; 6. The new tianxia: rebuilding China's internal and external order; 7. Two kinds of enlightenment: civilizational consciousness or cultural consciousnes; 8. Li Shenzhi: the last scholar-official, the last hero; Glossary; Index.

About the author

Xu Jilin is Professor of History at Shanghai Normal University, and is one of China's most prominent public intellectuals. His many articles and books have focused on various aspects of China's modern intellectual history.David Ownby is Professor of History at the Université de Montréal. He worked on the history of societies in Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China (1996) and popular religion in Falun Gong and the Future of China (2008), before returning to an earlier interest in contemporary Chinese intellectual life.

Summary

This volume is a vision of contemporary China from the inside. Eight recent essays by the prominent public intellectual Xu Jilin offer a liberal reaction to China's economic rise, critiquing China's rejection of universal values, the nation's embrace of particularism and the cult of the state.

Product details

• Authors: Jilin Xu, Jilin (Shanghai Normal University) Xu, XU JILIN
• Assisted by: David Ownby (Translation), Ownby David (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108456586
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45658-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: The Cambridge China Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / Asia / General, Society & culture: general, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Politics and government, Asian History, General and world history, Society and culture: general, History and Archaeology, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019