Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking China's rise : a liberal critique / Xu Jilin ; edited and translated by David Ownby.

Author

Xu, Jilin

Publication

• Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Ownby, David, 1958-

Description

xxxii, 218 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

The Cambridge China library

Uniform Title

Cambridge China library.

Subject

• Since 2002
• HISTORY / Asia / General
• Civilization
• China > Civilization > 2002-
• China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

What Kind of Civilization? China at a Crossroads -- The Spector of Leviathan: A Critique of Chinese Statism since 2000 -- Universal Civilization, or Chinese Values? A Critique of Historicist Thought since 2000 -- After the "Great Disembedding": Family-State, Tianxia, and Self -- What Body for Confucianism's Lonely Soul? -- The New Tianxia: Rebuilding China's Internal and External Order -- Two Kinds of Enlightenment: Civilizational Consciousness or Cultural Consciousnes -- Li Shenzhi: The Last Scholar-Official, the Last Hero.

Call Number

JFE 18-9979

ISBN

• 9781108470759
• 1108470750

LCCN

• 2018007397
• 40028446076

OCLC

1027129680

Author

Xu, Jilin, author.

Title

Rethinking China's rise : a liberal critique / Xu Jilin ; edited and translated by David Ownby.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Cambridge China library

Cambridge China library.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 2002

Added Author

Ownby, David, 1958- editor, translator.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781108640657

Other Standard Identifier

40028446076

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9979