Culture and social transformations theoretical framework and Chinese context - Cao, Tian Yu 1941-; Zhong, Xueping 1956-; Liao, Kebin 1961- (Leiden Brill, 2010)
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.
"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 bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Social change -- China -- History -- 20th century; Social values -- China -- History -- 20th century; Political culture -- China -- History -- 20th century; China -- Civilization -- 1976-2002.; China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000.; China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002.; China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Influence