Rethinking China's Rise
A Liberal Critique
Part of The Cambridge China Library
- Author: Jilin Xu, Shanghai Normal University
- Editor and Translator: David Ownby, Université de Montréal
- Date Published: May 2020
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108456586
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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 rejection of universal values and the nation's embrace of Chinese particularism, the rise of the cult of the state and the acceptance of the historicist ideas of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss. Xu's work is distinct both from better-known voices of dissent and also from the 'New Left' perspectives, offering instead a liberal reaction to the complexity of China's rise. Yet this work is not a shrill denunciation of Xu's intellectual enemies, but rather a subtle and heartfelt call for China to accept its status as a great power and join the world as a force for good.
Read more- A fascinating insight into contemporary China's intellectual world
- A fresh critique of China's ascendancy
- The first volume of Xu Jilin's work available in English translation
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'Within China today, there are many voices calling for reforms. Among them is the prominent liberal scholar Xu Jilin. And in Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique, David Ownby has produced an excellent English translation of eight essays Xu has written over the past decade.' Kishore Mahbubani, Harper's Magazine
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- Date Published: May 2020
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108456586
- length: 250 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 151 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Editor and translator's introduction
1. What kind of civilization? China at a crossroads
2. The spector of leviathan: a critique of Chinese statism since 2000
3. Universal civilization, or Chinese values? A critique of historicist thought since 2000
4. After the 'Great Disembedding': family-state, tianxia, and self
5. What body for Confucianism's lonely soul?
6. The new tianxia: rebuilding China's internal and external order
7. Two kinds of enlightenment: civilizational consciousness or cultural consciousnes
8. Li Shenzhi: the last scholar-official, the last hero
Glossary
Index.
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