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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xu, Jilin (Author)
Other Authors: Ownby, David, 1958- (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
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.