Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China

Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China
ISBN-10
9004175164
ISBN-13
9789004175167
Category
History
Pages
459
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
BRILL
Authors
Tian Yu Cao, Xueping Zhong, Kebin Liao

Description

In the face of rapid and radical social changes since the late 1970s, contemporary China faces tremendous challenges. What is China transforming toward? What are the ideological positions and, more generally, cultural values that inform, question, and demand critical assessment of the social transformations in the reform era? This collection of essays aims at addressing these questions. Written by some of the leading intellectuals and thinkers in and outside of contemporary China, the essays, in different ways, examine the extent to which three major cultural resources, namely traditional, May Fourth, and socialist, have been (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and mobilized to address the challenges brought about by the changed and changing social and economic conditions of the reform era.

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