China in Transformation

Tu Wei-ming

ISBN 10: 0674117549 / ISBN 13: 9780674117549

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1994

Beschreibung

First softcover edition 1994, first printing, Published by Harvard University Press. Signed and inscribed by Editor Tu Wei-ming on the half-title page. Trade softcover without DJ as issued. Condition near fine, square tight and clean book, no names , some underlinings and side notes, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder, one very small tear at the foot of the spine pages. 8vo, XXVII + 253 pages.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 017533

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: China in Transformation
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674117549
• ISBN-13: 9780674117549
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 1st Paperback Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

What will China look like in 2000? Tectonic forces are at work and its seeming stability has been largely lost after Tiananmen Square. Changing political, social, economic, intellectual and cultural conditions are transforming China and its neighbours with a majority Chinese population. The authors in this book show what has been going on and what has been saved but is evolving. As communism did not erase the past, so new experiences build on the past and tease out newness with great resemblances. Modernity takes many forms, memory repressed for a time may reassert itelf; myth, the invention of individuals and collectivities, may be more powerful than prosaic fact. Cultural factors as agents of change appear more important than ever. This book demonstrates that today Confucian societies have salient features on a restless landscape. The authors confine themselves to enduring questions about today's Sinic societies so that educated readers and scholars of modern China will better understand the more populous half of the world. Contributing authors include: William P. Alford, David E. Apter, Myron L. Cohen, Edward Friedman, Tongqi Lin, Perry Link, Andrew J. Nathan, Benjamin I. Schwartz, Tianjian Shi, Helen F. Siu, Wang Gungwu, and Ying-shih Yu,

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tu Wei-ming is Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, and Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies, Emeritus, Harvard University. He directed the Harvard-Yenching Institute from 1996 to 2008.