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Name: Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China Ideas, History, and Modern China, vol 2
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Author: Yu, Cao Tian, Zhong Xueping and Liao Kebin (Eds.)
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by Tian Yu Cao (Editor); Xueping Zhong (Editor); Liao Kebin (Editor)

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From the rear cover

In the face of rapid and radical social changes since the late 1970s, contemporary China faces tremendous challenges. What is China transforming toward? What are the ideological positions and, more generally, cultural values that inform, question, and demand critical assessment of the social transformations in the reform era? This collection of essays aims at addressing these questions. Written by some of the leading intellectuals and thinkers, in and outside of contemporary China, the essays, in different ways, examine the extent to which three major cultural resources, namely traditional, May Fourth, and socialist, have been (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated and mobilized to address the challenges brought about by the changed and changing social and economic conditions of the reform era.

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Title Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China
Author Tian Yu Cao (Editor); Xueping Zhong (Editor); Liao Kebin (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Pages 460
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Brill
Date 2010-05
ISBN 9789004175167 / 9004175164
Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010003658
Dewey Decimal Code 951.05

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About the author

Cao Tian Yu, Ph.D. (1987) in Philosophy, University of Cambridge, teaches philosophy at Boston University, with special interests in philosophical issues related to modernity and globalization. His publication includes The Chinese Model of Modern Development (Routledge, 2005)

Zhong Xueping, Ph.D. (1993) in Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Tufts University. She has written on contemporary Chinese literature, film, television drama, and other related issues including Mainstream Culture Refocused (University of Hawaii Press, 2010).

Liao Kebin, Ph.D. (1989) in Classical Chinese Literature, Hangzhou University, is Professor of Classical Chinese Literature at Peking University. He has published extensively, including monographs and articles, on Ming Dynasty literature, classical novel and drama.