China's Great Transformation
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China's Great Transformation

Selected Essays on Confucianism, Modernization, and Democracy

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China's Great Transformation

Selected Essays on Confucianism, Modernization, and Democracy

About this book

Ambrose Yeo-chi King has been a pioneer since the mid-1960s theorizing China's modernization process. China's Great Transformation: Selected Essays on Confucianism, Modernization, and Democracy is a collection of his papers published between 1975 and 1997. These two decades are turning points for China as we observed the following dramatic historical trendsā€”the shift from revolutionary Maoism to Four Modernizations in mainland China, the unexpected democratic transition in Taiwan, and the rise of four little dragons (Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore) in East Asia. Focusing on the cultural dimension, King's essays in this volume are aimed to understand, to interpret, or to explain all these new developments from a historical, comparative framework.King obviously is a culturalist and a scholar in the modernization camp, but he at the same time voices many sharp criticisms on the modernization theory and offers a fresh reinterpretation of Confucian culture. He emphasizes the role of culture in societal transformation, but he never takes culture for granted, and examines it as a dynamic historical process always subject to change and embedded in political economy and social institutions.~~~~~~~~~~"Even though some of the chapters were written several decades ago, I find their analyses quite timely and highly relevant to understand the contemporary development of East Asia. King's selected essays in this volume stand the test of time."ā€”Alvin Y. SoChair Professor, Division of Social ScienceThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Full Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. The Individual and Group in Confucianism
  7. 2. A Study of Face
  8. 3. The Confucian Paradigm of Man
  9. 4. Guanxi and Network Building
  10. 5. The Role of Intellectuals in Chinese State Socialism
  11. 6. ā€œModernizationā€and ā€œModernityā€
  12. 7. Administrative Absorption of Politics
  13. 8. Democracy in A Post-Confucian Culture
  14. 9. State Confucianism and Its Transformation
  15. 10. Rationalistic Traditionalism in Hong Kong
  16. 11. Max Weber and the Modern State in China
  17. 12. Confucianism, Modernity, Asian Democracy
  18. Notes
  19. Index
  20. Major Publications in Chinese by Ambrose Yeo-Chi KING