Chinese Political Culture

by Hua,Shiping

• ISBN13: 9780765605658
• ISBN10: 0765605651
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Until this book, there has been no comprehensive, methodologically aware study of all aspects of Chinese political culture. The book is organized into three major areas: Chinese identities and popular culture (regional identities, anti-politics attitudes, Hong Kong identity); public opinion surveys (the Beijing area, Chinese workers, the Shanghai area); and ideological debates (the "new" Confucianism, masculinity and Confucianism, why authoritarianism is popular in China, the decline of Chinese official ideology). Here is the first work that reveals just how much, how rapidly, and how dramatically China is changing and why our perceptions of China must keep pace.

Author Biography

Roger Ames is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawaii Yu-tzung Chang is currently Senior Researcher for the East Asian Democratization and Value Changes Project at National Taiwan University Godwin Chu joined the East-West Center as a Senior Fellow in 1973 and is currently Emeritus Senior Fellow Yun-han Chu is Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University Edward Friedman is the Hawkins Chair Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Shiping Hua is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Eckerd College Huixin Ke is with the Survey and Statistics Institute, Beijing Broadcast Institute, Beijing, China Cheng Li is Professor of Political Science at Hamilton College, New York Alan P.L. Liu is Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara Kam Louie is Director of the Asian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland Kalpalna Misra is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tulsa Peter Moody, Jr. is Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame Andrew Nathan is Professor of Political Science, Columbia University Chih-yu Shih is Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University Wenfang Tang is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Jonathan J.H. Zhu, Associate Professor, English Department, City University of Hong Kong

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	ix
Foreword	xi
Andrew J. Nathan
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: Some Paradigmatic Issues in the Study of Chinese Political Culture	3	(18)
Shiping Hua
Part I: The Chinese Cultural Tradition and Its Modern Face
Sage, Teacher, Businessman: Confucius as a Model Male	21	(21)
Kam Louie
The Changing Concept of Zhong (Loyalty): Emerging New Chinese Political Culture	42	(28)
Godwin C. Chu
New Confucianism: A Native Response to Western Philosophy	70	(33)
Roger T. Ames
Part II: Socialization: Official Ideologies, Literature, and the Media
Still Building the Nation: The Causes and Consequences of China's Patriotic Fervor	103	(30)
Edward Friedman
Curing the Sickness and Saving the Party: Neo-Maoism and Neo-Conservatism in the 1990s	133	(28)
Kalpana Misra
The Antipolitical Tendency in Contemporary Chinese Political Thinking	161	(27)
Peter Moody
Political Culture as Social Construction of Reality: A Case Study of Hong Kong's Images in Mainland China	188	(31)
Jonathan Jian-Hua Zhu
Huixin Ke
Part III: Comparative Political Culture Studies: Social Strata and Regions
Diversification of Chinese Entrepreneurs and Cultural Pluralism in the Reform Era	219	(27)
Cheng Li
Provincial Identities and Political Cultures: Modernism, Traditionalism, Parochialism, and Separatism	246	(30)
Alan P.L. Liu
Political Culture of Election in Taiwanese and Chinese Minority Areas	276	(22)
Chih-yu Shih
Religion and Society in China and Taiwan	298	(22)
Wenfang Tang
Culture Shift and Regime Legitimacy: Comparing Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong	320	(29)
Yun-han Chu
Yu-tzung Chang
Contributors	349	(6)
Index	355