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Opening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Self-Made Maps of Chinese Intellectuality Chapter 3 The Topography of Intellectual Culture in 1990s Mainland China: A Survey Chapter 4 The Popular Cultural Movement of the 1980s Chapter 5 Revisiting the Perils of "Designer Pidgin Scholarship" Chapter 6 On Western Literary Theory in China Chapter 7 Some Reflections on New Confucianism in Mainland Chinese Culture of the 1990s Chapter 8 On Scientism and Social Theory in Modern Chinese Thought Chapter 9 Interpreting Modern Chinese History through the Theory of Ultra-Stable Systems Chapter 10 Patriotism versus Intellectual Curiosity: Jin Guantao's Approach to Chinese History Chapter 11 In Search of a "Third Way": A Conversation regarding "Liberalism" and the "New Left Wing" Chapter 12 Time's Arrows: Imaginative Pasts and Nostalgic Futures
About the author
Gloria Davies is senior lecturer in Chinese at Monash University.
