| Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China Contributor(s): Fogel, Joshua (Editor), Cheek, Timothy (Editor), Ownby, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231195222 ISBN-13: 9780231195225 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $89.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China - Political Science | World - Asian - Political Science | Essays |
| LCCN: 2019011884 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.55 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Cultural Region - Asian |
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| Publisher Description: China's increasing prominence on the global stage has caused consternation and controversy among Western thinkers, especially since the financial crisis of 2008. But what do Chinese intellectuals themselves have to say about their country's newfound influence and power? Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window into public debate in China today on fundamental questions of China and the world--past, present, and future. The voices in this volume include figures from each of China's main intellectual clusters: liberals, the New Left, and New Confucians. In genres from scholarly analyses to social media posts, often using Party-approved language that hides indirect criticism, these essayists offer a wide range of perspectives on how to understand China's history and its place in the twenty-first-century world. They explore questions such as the relationship of political and economic reforms; the distinctiveness of China's history and what to take from its traditions; what can or should be learned from the West; and how China fits into today's eruption of populist anger and challenges to the global order. The fifteen original translations in this volume not only offer insight into contemporary China but also prompt us to ask what Chinese intellectuals might have to teach Europe and North America about the world's most pressing problems. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cheek, Timothy: - Timothy Cheek is Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. His most recent book is The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has also translated and edited Mao texts with Stuart Schram for vol. VIII of Mao Zedong's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949 (Routledge 2015).Ownby, David: - David Ownby is Professor of History and Director of the Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Falun Gong and the Future of China (OUP 2008) and Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition (Stanford 1996).Fogel, Joshua: - Joshua A. Fogel (PhD Columbia) is Canada Research Chair in the History Department at York University. Among many other works, he is the author of Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time and the translator of Inoue Yasushi's The Blue Wolf: A Novel of the Life of Chinggis Khan. |
