Rethinking China's rise : a liberal critique /
China's rise to power is the signal event of the twenty-first century, and this volume offers a contemporary view of this nation in ascendancy from the inside. Eight recent essays by Xu Jilin, a popular historian and one of China's most prominent public intellectuals, critique China's...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Cambridge China library.
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Table of Contents:
- What Kind of Civilization? China at a Crossroads
- The Spector of Leviathan: A Critique of Chinese Statism since 2000
- Universal Civilization, or Chinese Values? A Critique of Historicist Thought since 2000
- After the Great Disembedding: Family-State, Tianxia, and Self
- What Body for Confucianism's Lonely Soul?
- The New Tianxia: Rebuilding China's Internal and External Order
- Two Kinds of Enlightenment: Civilizational Consciousness or Cultural Consciousnes
- Li Shenzhi: The Last Scholar-Official, the Last Hero.