Voices from the Chinese Century

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

Voices from the Chinese Century

Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China

Edited by: Joshua Fogel, Timothy Cheek and David Ownby

https://doi.org/10.7312/chee19522

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About this book

Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window into public debate in China today on fundamental questions of China and the world—past, present, and future. The voices in this volume include figures from each of China’s main intellectual clusters.

Author information

Timothy Cheek is Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. His most recent book is The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History (2015).

David Ownby is professor of Chinese history at the University of Montréal. He is the editor and translator of Xu Jilin’s Rethinking China’s Rise: A Liberal Critique (2018), among other works.

Joshua A. Fogel is Canada Research Chair in Modern Chinese Studies at York University. His many books include Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations (2014).

Reviews

Peter Zarrow, University of Connecticut:
Few countries will do more to shape the twenty-first century than China. But who will shape China? This is a necessary book introducing us to key ideas for the future of Chinese politics and society. Many of the voices translated in this volume not only affect the debates going on in China today but will influence what issues the Chinese consider important tomorrow.

Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania:
This splendid anthology features intellectual voices of different ideological camps in contemporary China. The masterfully selected and translated texts represent both academic writings and popular internet genres. Extremely timely and important for understanding China’s changing social and political trends. A treasure trove for teaching and research.

Aminda Smith, Michigan State University:
Voices from the Chinese Century is an immensely important and incredibly timely book, broadly relevant beyond the field of China studies. The translations are exemplary; these translators have pulled it off beautifully.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, coauthor of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know:
A joint effort by scholars with stellar track records, this collection is a valuable and timely contribution to the literature on Chinese thought and politics. It allows readers outside the country a unique chance to eavesdrop on and appreciate the stakes in the spirited debates that continue among Chinese intellectuals.

Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Accessible Download PDF	v
Introduction: Thinking China in the Age of Xi Jinping Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
PART I: THE CHALLENGE
1. “Unifying the Three Traditions” in the New Era (selection) (2005) Gan Yang Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	29
PART II: LIBERAL VOICES
2. Liberalism in the Chinese Context (2004) Liu Qing Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	45
3. A China Bereft of Thought (2013) Rong Jian Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	72
4. Original Intentions Start with the People (2017) Guo Yuhua Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	104
5. “The Shadow of Communist Civilization”: A Gongshi Wang ( Consensus Net) Interview (2013) Guo Yuhua Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	110
6. Advancing Constitutional Democracy Should Be the Mission of the Chinese Communist Party (2013) Cai Xia Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	134
7. “I Am a Child of the Nineteenth Century”: The Last Twenty Years of Wang Yuanhua’s Life (2008) Xu Jilin Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	155
PART III: LEFT VOICES
8. Mao Zedong and His Era (2012) Qian Liqun Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	175
9. From Authoritarian Government to Constitutional Democracy (2012) Xiao Gongqin Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	198
10. Liberalism: For the Aristocrats or for the People? (1999) Gan Yang Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	209
11. Representative Democracy and Representational Democracy (2014) Wang Shaoguang Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	222
12. The Significance of Borders (2017) Sun Ge Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	267
PART IV: NEW CONFUCIAN VOICES
13. Kang Youwei and Institutional Confucianism (2014) Chen Ming, Gan Yang, Tang Wenming, Yao Zhongqiu and Zhang Xiang Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	281
14. A Century of Confucianism (2014) Chen Lai Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	306
15. Only Confucians Can Make a Place for Modern Women (2015) Jiang Qing Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	318
Glossary of Names and Terms Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	343
List of Essays Translated in This Volume, with Original Titles Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	361
Contributors Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	363
Index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	367

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: December 16, 2019
ISBN: 9780231551250