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Title Culture and social transformations : theoretical framework and Chinese context / edited by Cao Tianyu, Zhong Xueping, Liao Kebin, Wang Ban
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013

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Series Ideas, history, and modern China, 1875-9394 ; volume 7
Ideas, history, and modern China ; volume 7.
Contents Introduction : the social and cultural roots of the reforms / Cao Tianyu and Zhong Xueping -- Modernism, modernity, and individualism / Nan Fan -- Subaltern literature : theory and practice (2004-2009) / Li Yunlei -- The "crime" of Lu Xun, anti-enlightenment, and Chinese modernity : criticism of Liu Xiaofeng's "Christian theology" / Lu Xinyu -- From charting the revolution to charter 2008 : discourse, liberalism, imperialism, de-politicization / Daniel F. Vukovich -- The transformation of Chinese university culture : history, present, and path / Liao Kebin -- Academic discourse, official ideology, and institutional metamorphoses : reflections on contemporary Chinese legal discourses and reality / Yu Xingzhong -- The flight to rights : 1990s China and beyond / Rebecca E. Karl -- Human rights, revolutionary legacy, and politics in China / Wang Ban -- Democracy : lyric poem and construction blueprint / Han Shaogong -- Rereading "commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of the Ming fall" / Han Yuhai -- The crisis of socialism and efforts to overcome it / Cai Xiang -- Post-socialism revisited : reflections on "socialism with chinese characteristics", its past, present, and future / Arif Dirlik -- Reinterpreting "capitalist restoration" in China : toward a historical critique of actually existing market socialism / Yiching Wu -- The western slump and global reorganization / Robert Wade -- An argument for "participatory socialism" / Lin Chun
Summary Contributors to this second volume of "Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China" explore some of the most contentiously debated questions and issues including liberalism, human rights, rule of law, the state, capitalism, and socialism
Notes "This is the second collection of essays based on the third conference of the "Culture and Social Transformations in Reform era China" project. Conceived in 2003, the project has been carried out by the editors of this volume in collaboration with Lin Chun of The London School of Economics. The third conference was held in 2009 at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China." Introduction
Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Social change -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Civilization
Politics and government
Social change
Social conditions
SUBJECT China -- Civilization -- 1976-2002 -- Congresses
China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000 -- Congresses
China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002 -- Congresses
Subject China
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Cao, Tian Yu, 1941- editor.
Zhong, Xueping, 1956- editor.
Liao, Kebin, 1961- editor.
Wang, Ban, 1957- editor.
ISBN 9789004260511
900426051X
1306082633
9781306082631