Intellectual Discourse in Reform Era China
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A01=Giorgio Strafella
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Author_Giorgio Strafella
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CCP Central Committee
chen
Chen Pingyuan
Chen Sihe
Chen Xiaoming
China's Humanists
China’s Humanists
Chinese Communist Party
Chinese Humanists
Chinese Intellectual Discourse
Chinese intellectual history
cultural modernisation China
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humanities theory
intellectual debates 1990s China
jilin
Li Tiangang
Li Zehou
pingyuan
political liberalisation effects
post-Tiananmen scholarship
Public Engagement
shuo
sihe
Socio-economic Development
Tang Junyi
Vice Versa
wang
Wang Shuo
Wang Xiaoming
xiaoming
Xu Jilin
Ying Xing
yiwu
Yuan Weishi
zhang
Zhang Chengzhi
Zhang Xianliang
Zhang Yiwu
Zhang Zhizhong
zhizhong
Zhu Xueqin
Product details
- ISBN 9780367026974
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explores intellectual discourse in reform era China by analysing the so-called “debate on the spirit of the Humanities”, which occurred in the years 1993-95, and which is recognised by scholars as one of the most interesting, influential and important debates of the 1990s. This debate, in which Chinese intellectuals reflected on reform-era mass culture and on their role in society, was the first debate in China after the crackdown of 1989 and the launch of new economic reforms after Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 “southern tour”. The book, drawing on a large corpus of texts and a wide range of individual positions, demonstrates how Chinese intellectuals, having to face the combination of political repression and economic liberalisation, conceptualised and reacted to both. The book reveals the scale and complexity of the debate, the nature of intellectual life in China, the status and relevance of intellectual voices in society, the divisions within the intellectual sphere as well as shared concepts and ideals, and how the key factors of political repression and economic liberalisation which remain central in China today were defined and articulated.
Giorgio Strafella is a Research Fellow in the Department of Chinese Culture and Society at the University of St Gallen
