China S Intellectuals And The State

Author : Merle Goldman,Timothy Cheek,Carol Lee Hamrin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171095

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China's Intellectuals and the State by Merle Goldman,Timothy Cheek,Carol Lee Hamrin Pdf

"Today’s intellectuals in China inherit a mixed tradition in terms of their relationship to the state. Some follow the Confucian literati watchdog role of criticizing abuses of political power. Marxist intellectuals judge the state’s practices on the basis of Communist ideals. Others prefer the May Fourth spirit, dedicated to the principles of free scholarly and artistic expression. The Chinese government, for its part, has undulated in its treatment of intellectuals, applying restraints when free expression threatened to get “out of control,” relaxing controls when state policies required the cooperation, good will, and expertise of intellectuals. In this stimulating work, twelve China scholars examine that troubled and changing relationship. They focus primarily on the post-Mao years when bitter memories of the Cultural Revolution and China’s renewed quest for modernization have at times allowed intellectuals increased leeway in expression and more influence in policy-making. Specialists examine the situation with respect to economists, lawyers, scientists and technocrats, writers, and humanist scholars in the climate of Deng Xiaoping’s policies, and speculate about future developments. This book will be a valuable source of information for anyone interested in the changing scene in contemporary China and in its relations with the outside world."

Author : Merle Goldman,Edward Gu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134341771

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Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market by Merle Goldman,Edward Gu Pdf

This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a centrally planned to a market one, and as China opened up to the outside world and was influenced by the outside world, Chinese intellectual activity became more wide-ranging, more independent, more professionalized and more commercially oriented than ever before. The future impact of this activity on Chinese civil society is discussed in the last chapter.

Author : K. Mok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230379855

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Intellectuals and the State in Post-Mao China by K. Mok Pdf

To understand political change in contemporary China it is crucial to understand the position of intellectuals in that society and their often troubled relation to the state. This book explores the ideas of prominent Chinese intellectuals, their relationship to the pro-democracy movements and the changing relationship between intellectuals and the Chinese state. It is a sociological study of the ideological formation of Chinese intellectuals, and their place in the social structure and their role in influencing and effecting social and political change. It will make an important contribution in our understanding of political development in China.

Author : Timothy Cheek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:799654872

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China's Intellectuals and the State by Timothy Cheek Pdf

Author : Jerome B. Grieder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002676834

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Intellectuals and the State in Modern China by Jerome B. Grieder Pdf

Author : Jerome B. Grieder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780029126707

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Intellectuals and the State in Modern China by Jerome B. Grieder Pdf

Traces the lives ad accomplishments of Chinese intellectuals from the Boxer Rebellion to the birth of the Peoples Republic and details their responses to change and tradition.

Author : Merle Goldman,Timothy Cheek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:799654872

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China's Intellectuals and the State by Merle Goldman,Timothy Cheek Pdf

Author : Timothy Cheek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107021419

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The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History by Timothy Cheek Pdf

A vivid account of Chinese intellectuals across the twentieth century that provides a guide to making sense of China today.

Author : Sebastian Veg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231549400

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Minjian by Sebastian Veg Pdf

Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the marginalized, often proclaiming their independence with a heavy dose of anti-elitist rhetoric. They are proudly minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people. In this book, Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. An intellectual history of contemporary China, Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere. Veg explores the work of amateur historians who question official accounts, independent documentarians who let ordinary people speak for themselves, and grassroots lawyers and NGO workers who spread practical knowledge. Their interventions are specific rather than universal, with a focus on concrete problems among disenfranchised populations such as victims of Maoism, migrant workers and others without residence permits, and petitioners. Drawing on careful analysis of public texts by grassroots intellectuals and the networks and publics among which they circulate, Minjian is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of crucial trends developing under the surface of contemporary Chinese society.

Author : Zhidong Hao
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791487570

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Intellectuals at a Crossroads by Zhidong Hao Pdf

A survey of contemporary Chinese intellectuals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349401161

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Intellectuals and the State in Post-Mao China by Anonim Pdf

To understand political change in contemporary China it is crucial to understand the position of intellectuals in that society and their often troubled relation to the state. This book explores the ideas of prominent Chinese intellectuals, their relationship to the pro-democracy movements and the changing relationship between intellectuals and the Chinese state. It is a sociological study of the ideological formation of Chinese intellectuals, and their place in the social structure and their role in influencing and effecting social and political change. It will make an important contribution in our understanding of political development in China.

Author : Joshua A. Fogel,Peter G. Zarrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000161250

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Imagining the People by Joshua A. Fogel,Peter G. Zarrow Pdf

While much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of citizenry. This book examines thinkers from the period 1890-1920 in modern China, and shows how China might forge a modern society with a political citizenry.

Author : Xiaowei Zang,Chien-wen Kou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135081003

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Elites and Governance in China by Xiaowei Zang,Chien-wen Kou Pdf

This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the top leadership, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of shared governance and broadened political participation in China. The chapters in this collection explore the elites’ role as opinion-makers, technical experts, producers of knowledge, and executives or managers, and pose a number of questions, the answers to which are crucial to understanding future political and economic development in China. What are elite perceptions of governance, inequality and justice; what do the elites mean by good governance; what is the influence of non-Chinese Communist Party elites in policy-making and implementation in China; how have they exerted their influence in the PRC and influenced its direction of future development; and what have grass-roots elites contributed to governance in local communities? Providing a keen insight into the role elites have played in governing China since 1978, this book is a pioneering effort to bring together elite studies and governance studies. As such, it will be highly relevant for policy-makers within international organizations, governments, and NGOs outside China as well as appealing to scholars and students interested in Chinese politics and governance.

Author : Wang Hui
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674966963

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China from Empire to Nation-State by Wang Hui Pdf

This translation of the introduction to Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers for the first time. A leading public intellectual in China, Wang charts the historical currents that have shaped Chinese modernity from the Song Dynasty to the present day.

Author : Xudong Zhang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822381150

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Whither China? by Xudong Zhang Pdf

Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of the previous decade were left in ruins by that event, Chinese intellectuals were forced in the early 1990s to search for new analytical and critical frameworks. Soon, however, they found themselves engulfed by tidal waves of globalization, surrounded by a new social landscape marked by unabashed commodification, and stunned by a drastically reconfigured socialist state infrastructure. The contributors to Whither China? describe how, instead of spearheading the popular-mandated and state-sanctioned project of modernization, intellectuals now find themselves caught amid rapidly changing structures of economic, social, political, and cultural relations that are both global in nature and local in an irreducibly political sense. Individual essays interrogate the space of Chinese intellectual production today, lay out the issues at stake, and cover major debates and discursive interventions from the 1990s. Those who write within the Chinese context are joined by Western observers of contemporary Chinese cultural and intellectual life. Together, these two groups undertake a truly international intellectual struggle not only to interpret but to change the world. Contributors. Rey Chow, Zhiyuan Cui, Michael Dutton, Gan Yang, Harry Harootunian, Peter Hitchcock, Rebecca Karl, Louisa Schein, Wang Hui, Wang Shaoguang, Xudong Zhang