... the West) 1986-1987 Widespread Chinese student demonstrations in support of democracy 1987Fan... more ... the West) 1986-1987 Widespread Chinese student demonstrations in support of democracy 1987Fang Lizhi and ... 2008 Beijing scheduled to host the games of the XXIX Olympiad 2012 Date of ... 7.1 Two homicidal migrant miners looking for their next victim in Li Yang's Blind Shaft ...
"There and Back Again" was published in volume two of the 2011 Pacific Crest Trailside ... more "There and Back Again" was published in volume two of the 2011 Pacific Crest Trailside Reader. This piece is part narrative scholarship, part environmental philosophy and is concerned with the restorative or regenerative benefits of direct experience of the more-than-human world and the problematic idea of "nature" as a place of "escape" or escapism."
Introduction: China, the United States, and Convulsive Cooperation Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B... more Introduction: China, the United States, and Convulsive Cooperation Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston Part I: In the Headlines Chapter 1: Jousting with Monsters: Journalists in a Rapidly Changing China David Bandurski Chapter 2: Youth Culture in China: Idols, Sex, and the Internet Jonathan S. Noble Chapter 3: Dismantling the Socialist Welfare State: The Rise of Civil Society in China Jessica C. Teets Chapter 4: Mutually Assured Destruction or Dependence? U.S. and Chinese Perspectives on China's Military Development Andrew S. Erickson Chapter 5: China's Environmental Tipping Point Alex L. Wang Chapter 6: China's Historic Urbanization: Explosive and Challenging Timothy B. Weston Chapter 7: The Worlds of China's Intellectuals Timothy Cheek Chapter 8: Why Does China Fear the Internet? Susan D. Blum Part II: Beyond the Headlines Chapter 9: Producing Exemplary Consumers: Tourism and Leisure Culture in China's Nation-Building Project Travis Klingberg and Tim Oakes Chapter 10: Professionals and Populists: The Paradoxes of China's Legal Reforms Benjamin L. Liebman Chapter 11: The Decriminalization and Depathologization of Homosexuality in China Wenqing Kang Chapter 12: The Evolution of Chinese Authoritarianism: Lessons from the "Arab Spring" Orion A. Lewis Chapter 13: Culture Industry, Power, and the Spectacle of China's "Confucius Institutes" Lionel M. Jensen Chapter 14: Tensions and Violence in China's Minority Regions Katherine Palmer Kaup Chapter 15: An Unharmonious Society: Foreign Reporting in China Gady Epstein Afterword: What Future for Human Rights Dialogues? John Kamm
... Apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses (A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinesse and Tonkinese ... more ... Apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses (A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinesse and Tonkinese ... Working in eight languages--Latin, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Hebrew, French, Italian and Spanish--Olga Dror ... We now learn that it took place in the last month of every year ...
At the heart of New Confucianism: A Critical Examination is a question of definition: How should ... more At the heart of New Confucianism: A Critical Examination is a question of definition: How should we understand the contested notion of "New Confucianism"? Is it a matter of genealogy, philosophical doctrine, political orientation, or personal experience? Does it matter in what terms individuals identified themselves or whether they saw themselves as part of a shared intellectual movement? Who, ultimately, gets to answer these questions? Of course, there is much more in the essays than these questions-including, most notably, astute analyses of several philosophers' ideas, thought-provoking reflections on some of the roles played by Buddhism in modern Chinese thought, and historical/sociological scholarship on the invention of tradition. I will turn to these matters later. I start with definitions, both because they are necessary for understanding much of the rest, and because it is here that I find some of the most interesting ground for critical engagement with the volume's authors. A summary of the essays will help to make clear the centrality of the definition of "New Confucianism." The volume opens with John Makeham's Introduction and his two essays, "The Restrospective Creation of New Confucianism" and "The New Daotong." The former essay argues that there was no "group identity" of "New Confucians" prior to the 1970s; the latter looks at the ways that thinkers like Mou Zongsan used the notion of daotong-"the interconnecting thread of the way"-as a strategy of orthodoxy formation. Next comes Song Xianlin's article on the political and cultural reasons for the rise of discussion of "New Confucianism" in the PRC during the 1980s. Rounding out the two essays in Part II is "Li Zehou and New Confucianism" by Sylvia Chan, which argues that Li ought to be seen as a New Confucian despite his many differences with figures more canonically associated with the movement. Part III contains two essays, the first of which is N. Serina Chan's excellent and selfexplanatory, "What is Confucian and New about the Thought of Mou Zongsan?" This is paired with an essay by Lauren Pfister that argues against labeling Feng Youlan as a New Confucian, though not for the
Ai Weiwei (as most readers of this blog will know), perhaps China’s best-known artist and provoca... more Ai Weiwei (as most readers of this blog will know), perhaps China’s best-known artist and provocateur, is missing. Like so many other people of conscience and voice in the past two years, he is gone. Swallowed by the insatiable fear of the state’s authoritarian belly. It has been more than four days since his apprehension and his wife, Lu Qing, who was also detained and questioned, has not heard from him; he is unreachable by phone
... the West) 1986-1987 Widespread Chinese student demonstrations in support of democracy 1987Fan... more ... the West) 1986-1987 Widespread Chinese student demonstrations in support of democracy 1987Fang Lizhi and ... 2008 Beijing scheduled to host the games of the XXIX Olympiad 2012 Date of ... 7.1 Two homicidal migrant miners looking for their next victim in Li Yang's Blind Shaft ...
"There and Back Again" was published in volume two of the 2011 Pacific Crest Trailside ... more "There and Back Again" was published in volume two of the 2011 Pacific Crest Trailside Reader. This piece is part narrative scholarship, part environmental philosophy and is concerned with the restorative or regenerative benefits of direct experience of the more-than-human world and the problematic idea of "nature" as a place of "escape" or escapism."
Introduction: China, the United States, and Convulsive Cooperation Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B... more Introduction: China, the United States, and Convulsive Cooperation Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston Part I: In the Headlines Chapter 1: Jousting with Monsters: Journalists in a Rapidly Changing China David Bandurski Chapter 2: Youth Culture in China: Idols, Sex, and the Internet Jonathan S. Noble Chapter 3: Dismantling the Socialist Welfare State: The Rise of Civil Society in China Jessica C. Teets Chapter 4: Mutually Assured Destruction or Dependence? U.S. and Chinese Perspectives on China's Military Development Andrew S. Erickson Chapter 5: China's Environmental Tipping Point Alex L. Wang Chapter 6: China's Historic Urbanization: Explosive and Challenging Timothy B. Weston Chapter 7: The Worlds of China's Intellectuals Timothy Cheek Chapter 8: Why Does China Fear the Internet? Susan D. Blum Part II: Beyond the Headlines Chapter 9: Producing Exemplary Consumers: Tourism and Leisure Culture in China's Nation-Building Project Travis Klingberg and Tim Oakes Chapter 10: Professionals and Populists: The Paradoxes of China's Legal Reforms Benjamin L. Liebman Chapter 11: The Decriminalization and Depathologization of Homosexuality in China Wenqing Kang Chapter 12: The Evolution of Chinese Authoritarianism: Lessons from the "Arab Spring" Orion A. Lewis Chapter 13: Culture Industry, Power, and the Spectacle of China's "Confucius Institutes" Lionel M. Jensen Chapter 14: Tensions and Violence in China's Minority Regions Katherine Palmer Kaup Chapter 15: An Unharmonious Society: Foreign Reporting in China Gady Epstein Afterword: What Future for Human Rights Dialogues? John Kamm
... Apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses (A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinesse and Tonkinese ... more ... Apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses (A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinesse and Tonkinese ... Working in eight languages--Latin, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Hebrew, French, Italian and Spanish--Olga Dror ... We now learn that it took place in the last month of every year ...
At the heart of New Confucianism: A Critical Examination is a question of definition: How should ... more At the heart of New Confucianism: A Critical Examination is a question of definition: How should we understand the contested notion of "New Confucianism"? Is it a matter of genealogy, philosophical doctrine, political orientation, or personal experience? Does it matter in what terms individuals identified themselves or whether they saw themselves as part of a shared intellectual movement? Who, ultimately, gets to answer these questions? Of course, there is much more in the essays than these questions-including, most notably, astute analyses of several philosophers' ideas, thought-provoking reflections on some of the roles played by Buddhism in modern Chinese thought, and historical/sociological scholarship on the invention of tradition. I will turn to these matters later. I start with definitions, both because they are necessary for understanding much of the rest, and because it is here that I find some of the most interesting ground for critical engagement with the volume's authors. A summary of the essays will help to make clear the centrality of the definition of "New Confucianism." The volume opens with John Makeham's Introduction and his two essays, "The Restrospective Creation of New Confucianism" and "The New Daotong." The former essay argues that there was no "group identity" of "New Confucians" prior to the 1970s; the latter looks at the ways that thinkers like Mou Zongsan used the notion of daotong-"the interconnecting thread of the way"-as a strategy of orthodoxy formation. Next comes Song Xianlin's article on the political and cultural reasons for the rise of discussion of "New Confucianism" in the PRC during the 1980s. Rounding out the two essays in Part II is "Li Zehou and New Confucianism" by Sylvia Chan, which argues that Li ought to be seen as a New Confucian despite his many differences with figures more canonically associated with the movement. Part III contains two essays, the first of which is N. Serina Chan's excellent and selfexplanatory, "What is Confucian and New about the Thought of Mou Zongsan?" This is paired with an essay by Lauren Pfister that argues against labeling Feng Youlan as a New Confucian, though not for the
Ai Weiwei (as most readers of this blog will know), perhaps China’s best-known artist and provoca... more Ai Weiwei (as most readers of this blog will know), perhaps China’s best-known artist and provocateur, is missing. Like so many other people of conscience and voice in the past two years, he is gone. Swallowed by the insatiable fear of the state’s authoritarian belly. It has been more than four days since his apprehension and his wife, Lu Qing, who was also detained and questioned, has not heard from him; he is unreachable by phone
Together we can work for major changes in Chinese society and for the rapid establishment of a fr... more Together we can work for major changes in Chinese society and for the rapid establishment of a free, democratic, and constitutional country. We can bring to reality the goals and ideals that our people have incessantly been seeking for more than a hundred years, and can bring a brilliant new chapter to Chinese civilization.
Together we can work for major changes in Chinese society and for the rapid establishment of a fr... more Together we can work for major changes in Chinese society and for the rapid establishment of a free, democratic, and constitutional country. We can bring to reality the goals and ideals that our people have incessantly been seeking for more than a hundred years, and can bring a brilliant new chapter to Chinese civilization.
Li Zehou (1930-) POLITICAL CULTURE, CULTURAL POLITICS Arguably the most distinguished and influen... more Li Zehou (1930-) POLITICAL CULTURE, CULTURAL POLITICS Arguably the most distinguished and influential modernist philosopher of the last fifty years and one of the very few intellectual figures whose work has acquired an audience outside China. His significance for contemporary Chinese is, like that of most exiled intellectuals, complex. This is a reflection of the troubling distance between present day hedonistic excess and the 1980s culture fever in which his work first held sway over Chinese imagination, as well as the complexity of Li's philosophy, variously characterized as neo-traditional, instrumentalist, romantic, historical materialist, Neo-Kantian, Post-Marxist, Marxist-Confucian. He, like Liu Zaifu, advanced exceptionally creative readings of art, literature, philosophy in the creative urgency of the 1980s when it seemed that aesthetics offered the greatest prospect of redemption from China's post-Cultural Revolution morass. Working within the conceptual dyadic framework of subjectivity and objectivity peculiar to historical materialism, but selectively drawing inspiration from the works of Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Lukács, the Frankfurt School, Lacan, Piaget, and Habermas, Li deepened the problematic of the self in post-revolutionary modernism, raising his neologism "subjectality" (zhutixing) to a level of respectability and debate. With zhutixing he put forward a new conception of human nature, infusing the passive subject of the audience (duifang) of Mao's lectures on art at Yan'an with an assertive, sensuous, moral purpose, as he explained in a recent interview translated by John Zijiang Ding:
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].
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