Contemporary Chinese Political thought Debates and Perspectives
Author | : | Fred Dallmayr, Zhao Tingyang |
Year of Publication | : | 2013 |
Publisher | : | KW Publishers Pvt Ltd |
ISBN - 13 | : | 9789381904602 |
Edition | : | First |
Language | : | English |
Binding | : | Hardcover |
Subject | : | China / Chinese Studies |
About the Book :
Consumed for nearly a century
by internal and external struggles, China has finally gained a preeminent place
in the global community of nations. China’s steps toward free market capitalism
have opened the country to the outside world and raised Western hopes for increased
democratization. The Chinese, however, have developed their own style of
capitalism, which outsiders tend to analyze through the lens of their own
ideologies, distorting their understanding of the nation’s goals and policies.
Although popular belief still regards China as a traditional communist or
Maoist country, most observers fail to realize how much the Chinese political
system has evolved and diversified in the last fifty years.
In Contemporary Chinese Political Thought: Debates
and Perspectives, Fred Dallmayr and Zhao Tingyang assemble essays by leading
Chinese intellectuals to illuminate the political ideas shaping the rapidly
changing nation. The contributors examine China’s dominant intellectual trends,
focusing on the interlocking arenas of politics, economics, and culture. They
investigate such topics as the advantages and disadvantages of the popular
“China,” or “China Consensus” theory, which advocates mixed ownership,
individual property rights, and government intervention in the economy.
Exploring the resurgence of Chinese Confucianism,
the tenets of “New Leftism” (or post-Maoist leftism), and the evolution of
liberal socialism, the book offers keen insights into the relationship between
rapid economic growth and political stability and the government’s role in
mediating between them. Comprising a broad range of opinions and perspectives,
Contemporary Chinese Political Thought moves beyond the usual analytical
frameworks toward what Dallmayr and Zhao describe as “a dismantling of ideological
straitjackets.”
Knowledgeable observers have said that modern
China is economically liberal, culturally Confucian, and politically socialist,
but these three orientations also intersect and challenge each other in a
complex fabric of ideas struggling for prominence. Contemporary Chinese
Political Thought is the most current, comprehensive survey of modern Chinese
political attitudes and discourse available in English.
About Author :
Fred Dallmayr, Emeritus Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Dialogue among Civilization: Some Exemplary Voices and Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars.
Zhao Tingyang, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a professor of Capital Normal University in Beijing, is the author of Studies of a Bad World: Political Philosophy as Fist Philosophy.