Voicing Concerns Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry

by Davies, Gloria; Barmé, Geremie R.; Fong-ching, Chen; Guantao, Jin; Dong, Liu; Qing, Liu; Qingfeng, Liu; Gang, Luo; Yijie, Tang; Hui, Wang; Jilin, Xu; Yi, Xue; Xiaoqing, Ye; Daiyun, Yue

• ISBN13: 9780742509344
• ISBN10: 0742509346
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781461715559
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Opening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
A Note on Translation	xi
Gloria Davies
Geremie R. Barme
Introduction	1	(16)
Gloria Davies
The Self-Made Maps of Chinese Intellectuality	17	(30)
Gloria Davies
The Topography of Intellectual Culture in 1990s Mainland China: A Survey	47	(24)
Liu Qingfeng
Gloria Davies
The Popular Cultural Movement of the 1980s	71	(16)
Chen Fong-ching
Revisiting the Perils of ``Designer Pidgin Scholarship''	87	(22)
Liu Dong
Gloria Davies
Li Kaiyu
On Western Literary Theory in China	109	(14)
Yue Daiyun
Gloria Davies
Some Reflections on New Confucianism in Mainland Chinese Culture of the 1990s	123	(12)
Tang Yijie
Gloria Davies
On Scientism and Social Theory in Modern Chinese Thought	135	(22)
Wang Hui
Gloria Davies
Interpreting Modern Chinese History through the Theory of Ultrastable Systems	157	(28)
Jin Guantao
Gloria Davies
Patriotism versus Intellectual Curiosity: Jin Guantao's Approach to Chinese History	185	(14)
Ye Xiaoqing
In Search of a ``Third Way'': A Conversation regarding ``Liberalism'' and the ``New Left Wing''	199	(28)
Xu Jilin
Liu Qing
Luo Gang
Xue Yi
Geremie R. Barme
Time's Arrows: Imaginative Pasts and Nostalgic Futures	227	(32)
Geremie R. Barme
Index	259	(8)
About the Contributors	267