China in Transformation

by Wei-Ming, Tu; Tu, Weiming

• ISBN13: 9780674117549
• ISBN10: 0674117549
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

What will China look like in the twenty-first century? Powerful forces are at work and its seeming stability has been largely lost after Tiananmen Square. Changing political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural conditions are transforming China and its neighbors with a majority Chinese population. The authors in this book, taking full advantage of the new freedom of inquiry, shed light on the Chinese experience, elaborating not only on the vast changes sweeping all sectors of Chinese society, but also on the tradition that has persisted. The authors confine themselves to enduring questions about today's Sinic societies so that educated readers and scholars of modern China will better understand the more populous half of the world.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Cultural Perspectives
A Failed Chinese Modernity	p. 1
Cultural Identity and the Politics of Difference in South China	p. 19
Double-edged Swords Cut Both Ways: Law and Legitimacy in the People's Republic of China	p. 45
To Reform a Revolution: Under the Righteous Mandate	p. 71
Cultural Requisites for Democracy in China: Findings from a Survey	p. 95
The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century	p. 125
Cultural and Political Inventions in Modern China: The Case of the Chinese "Peasant"	p. 151
A Search for China's Soul	p. 171
China's "Core" Problem	p. 189
Yanan and the Narrative Reconstruction of Reality	p. 207
Culture, Modernity, and Nationalism - Further Reflections	p. 233
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