Opening a new window onto Chinese intellectual discourse, this book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant influence on the development of contemporary Chinese thought, the volume's contributors explore concerns over the role of the intellectual and the outcomes of knowledge production in the humanities. Masterfully translated, these essays provide a wide range of conflicting perspectives on contemporary Chinese intellectuality, yet they share in common...
Opening a new window onto Chinese intellectual discourse, this book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems and meanings of contemporary Ch...
What can we do about China? This question, couched in pessimism, is often raised in the West but it is nothing new to the Chinese, who have long worried about themselves. In the last two decades since the "opening" of China, Chinese intellectuals have been carrying on in their own ancient tradition of "patriotic worrying." As an intellectual mandate, "worrying about China" carries with it the moral obligation of identifying and solving perceived "Chinese problems"--social, political, cultural, historical, or economic--in order to achieve national perfection. In Worrying about China,...
What can we do about China? This question, couched in pessimism, is often raised in the West but it is nothing new to the Chinese, who have long worri...
