Full Description
As China enters the second decade of the 21st century, it faces tremendous challenges and crisis. How did China arrive at this point of crisis? How do we understand the nature of the challenges? More than any existing study of reform-era China, this volume offers a theoretical discussion of the cultural and social roots of the reform. It does so for the purpose of further exploring whether or not it is possible to imagine alternatives. Contributors to this second volume of "Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China" address these questions by exploring some of the most contentiously debated topics including liberalism, human rights, rule of law, the state, capitalism, and socialism.
Contents
Introduction: The Social and Cultural Roots of the Reforms
CAO Tianyu and ZHONG Xueping
Part I
Modernism, Modernity, and Individualism
NAN Fan
Subaltern Literature: Theory and Practice (2004-2009)
LI Yunlei
The "Crime" of Lu Xun, Anti-Enlightenment, and Chinese Modernity: Criticism of Liu Xiaofeng's "Christian Theology"
LU Xinyu
From Charting the Revolution to Charter 2008: From Maoist Discourse to De-politicization
Daniel F. VUKOVICH
The Transformation of Chinese University Culture: History, Present, and Path
LIAO Kebin
Part II
Academic Discourse, Official Ideology, and Institutional Metamorphoses: Reflections on Contemporary Chinese Legal Discourses and Reality
YU Xingzhong
The Flight to Rights: 1990s China and Beyond
Rebecca E. KARL
Human Rights, Revolutionary Legacy, and Politics in China
WANG Ban
Democracy: Lyric Poem and Construction Blueprint
HAN Shaogong
Part III
Rereading "Commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Ming Fall"
HAN Yuhai
The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It
CAI Xiang
Post-Socialism Revisited: Reflections on "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," Its Past, Present, and Future
Arif DIRLIK
Reinterpreting Capitalist Restoration in China: Toward a Historical Critique of "Actually Existing Market Socialism"
Yiching WU
The Western Slump and Global Reorganization
Robert WADE
An Argument for "Participatory Socialism"
LIN Chun
