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Book SynopsisChina has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-à-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China's prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus shows how the fervor for discovering “essential characteristics” of Chinese thought reveals a hidden psychological mechanism.
Table of ContentsThe Fantasmatic Narrative of Contemporary Chinese Thought; "Descendants of a Blurry-Eyed Dragon"; New Enlightenment as Modernization; "Traumatic"; Encounters with Postmodernism; Liberals and New Leftists as "Discursive Enemies"; China's New Nationalism and Its Obscene Core; Traversing the Fantasmatic Past and Future.
