China's Search for Modernity

Cultural Discourse in the Late 20th Century

He Ping (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2002
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-97715-6 (ISBN)

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Twenty years after a return from fundamentalism to economic reality, China has become the world's tenth largest economy and an increasingly important global power. He seeks to enhance our understanding of the cultural changes behind China's phenomenal rise and provides a fresh case study for the global cultural discourse.

Twenty years after a return from fundamentalism to economic reality, China has become the world's tenth largest economy and an increasingly important global power. Despite the rise of fundamentalism and post-modernism, the pursuit of modernity was an ongoing historical movement in late twentieth century China. He Ping focuses on China's quest for and experience of modernity. Implicitly comparative, the author discusses broad aspects of both Chinese and western civilizations, including their scientific traditions and socio-economic structures, with reference to modernization. He seeks to enhance our understanding of the cultural changes behind China's phenomenal rise and provides a fresh case study for the global cultural discourse.

HE PING is Professor of History at Sichuan University, China. Among his writings are The Glory of Empire: Tracing Ancient Roman Civilization and Afghanistan: The Intermixing and Clash of Civilizations.

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THE INQUIRY INTO HISTORY China's Historical Stagnation: Social and Economic Reasons China's Historical Stagnation: The Aspect of Science PART II: THE EXAMINATION OF CULTURE Towards a Modern Concept of Culture Re-imagining East-West Divide: Culture and Personality PART III: CULTURE AND MODERNIZATION The Significance of China's Cultural Tradition in Modernization The Imagination of Modernity and Pre-modernity in the 1990s Intellectuals and the Discourse Conclusion Appendices Endnotes and References Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.6.2002
Reihe/Serie	St Antony's Series
Zusatzinfo	VII, 228 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-333-97715-7 / 0333977157
ISBN-13	978-0-333-97715-6 / 9780333977156
Zustand	Neuware