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Rethinking China's Rise (The Cambridge China Library) - Softcover

Xu, Jilin

 
9781108456586: Rethinking China's Rise (The Cambridge China Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1108456588 ISBN 13: 9781108456586
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Xu Jilin is Professor of History at Shanghai Normal University, and is one of China's most prominent public intellectuals. His many articles and books have focused on various aspects of China's modern intellectual history.

David Ownby is Professor of History at the Université de Montréal. He worked on the history of societies in Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China (1996) and popular religion in Falun Gong and the Future of China (2008), before returning to an earlier interest in contemporary Chinese intellectual life.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108456588
ISBN 13 
9781108456586
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
252