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The evolution of China's intellectual landscape, especially the battles among different influential social and political ideas, sheds light on its history. Leading Schools of Thought in Contemporary China offers a close-up look of eight major schools of thought that swept across China between 1978 and 2008, ranging from Deng Xiaoping's thoughts to Neo-Confucianism. Subject to unrelenting debates among both scholars and the general public, the popularity of these ideas waxed and waned throughout those turbulent decades. They have two things in common. First, they are all problem-oriented insofar as they carry their advocates' hopes of finding in them solutions to both new and old problems the country has faced. Second, while richly informed by such traditions as authoritarianism and Confucianism that have long held sway in much of Asia, including China, these ideas also reveal the deep influence of, and even affinity with, some of the most influential social and political theories in the Western tradition, including liberalism, socialism and conservatism. Readers will find in the continuing contestation among these theories in the marketplace of ideas not only much of what is exciting about the intellectual scene in China today, but also clues about China's future.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Leading Schools Of Thought In Contemporary China
• Author: Licheng Ma
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 236
• EAN: 9789814656382
• ISBN: 9814656380
• ID: 09248832
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Weight: 490 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 237 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. September 2015

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