Title Rethinking China's rise : a liberal critique / Jilin Xu ; edited and translated by David Ownby

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series The Cambridge China library Cambridge China library. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; Editor and translator's introduction; Chinese Intellectuals in the Post- Mao Era; How to Read Xu Jilin; China's Rise and Xu Jilin's Response; Translation Issues and Technical Tedium; 1 What Kind of Civilization? China at a Crossroads; Translator's Introduction; Modernity: A New Axial Civilization; Will China Resist, Pursue, or Develop Mainstream Civilization?; Unifying the Three Traditions, Civil Religion, and Constitutional Patriotism 2 The Specter of Leviathan: A Critique of Chinese Statism since 2000Translator's Introduction; From the Left to the Right: Two Strands of Statism; "Responsive Democracy" or "Responsive Authority"?; The Specter of Schmittism: The Absolute Power of the State; The Divinization of State Rationality; 3 Universal Civilization, or Chinese Values? A Critique of Historicist Thought since 2000; Translator's Introduction; From the Universal Rationality of the 1980s to the Historicization of the Enlightenment in the 1990s; The Challenge to Universality: The Rise of Historicism Fighting for Universality in the Context of China's Rise"Reaching the Same Goal by Different Routes"; "Parting Company"; "Many Expressions of the Same Principle"; 4 After the "Great Disembedding": Family-State, Tianxia, and Self; Translator's Introduction; The Family-State/Tianxia Continuum and the Self at its Core; The Rupture in the Modern Family-State/Tianxia Continuum; Rebuilding a New Family-State/Tianxia Order; Re-embedding: Self in the New Family-State/Tianxia Order; 5 What Body for Confucianism's Lonely Soul?; Translator's Introduction Confucianism as Official Ideology: A Dead-End IdeaConfucianism as Religion: An Unrealizable Dream; Confucianism as a Set of "Civil Teachings"; Investing Hope in the People; 6 The New Tianxia: Rebuilding China's Internal and External Order; Translator's Introduction; The Universal Values of Tianxia; A De-centered, Non-hierarchical New Universalism; Tianxia's Internal Order: Unity in Diversity as National Governance; New Tianxia's External Order: Beyond the Sovereignty of the Nation-State; On the Possibility of an East Asian Community of Common Destiny 7 Two Kinds of Enlightenment: Civilizational Consciousness or Cultural ConsciousnessTranslator's Introduction; Civilizational Consciousness and Cultural Consciousness; The New Culture Movement as Civilizational Consciousness; Cultural Consciousness after the Japanese Invasion; "Good" Civilization and "Our" Culture; 8 Li Shenzhi: The Last Scholar-Official, the Last Hero; Translator's Introduction; An Old-Style Communist Party Member; Historical Idealism; Moral Idealism; Glossary; Index Summary A vision of contemporary China from the inside, Xu's essays offer a liberal reaction to the complexity of China's rise Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 28, 2018) Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Civilization. SUBJECT China -- Civilization -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004006870 Subject China. Form Electronic book Author Ownby, David, 1958- editor ; translator. ISBN 9781108640657 1108640656 9781108556965 1108556965 1108470750 9781108470759 1108456588 9781108456586

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