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A Cloud Across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash Between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today
Thomas Metzger
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Description for A Cloud Across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash Between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today
Hardcover. This work uncovers the basic contradictions between contemporary China's complex ideological marketplace and Western liberalism. It puts into critical context versions of both Western and Chinese liberalism, Confucian humanism and various versions of Chinese Marxism. Num Pages: 844 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1370.
This book uncovers the basic contradictions between contemporary China's complex ideological marketplace and Western liberalism. It describes and puts into critical context three versions of Western liberalism (those of F.A. Hayek, John Rawls, and John Dunn), three versions of Chinese liberalism (those of Yang Kuo-shu, Li Qiang, and Ambrose Y.C. King), two versions of modern Confucian humanism (those of T'ang Chun-i, and Henry K.H. Woo), and various versions of Chinese Marxism, including Kao Li-k'o's in the early 1990s and some of the recent New Left writings. It shows that all these Chinese political theories, not only Chinese Marxism, depend on ... Read more
This book uncovers the basic contradictions between contemporary China's complex ideological marketplace and Western liberalism. It describes and puts into critical context three versions of Western liberalism (those of F.A. Hayek, John Rawls, and John Dunn), three versions of Chinese liberalism (those of Yang Kuo-shu, Li Qiang, and Ambrose Y.C. King), two versions of modern Confucian humanism (those of T'ang Chun-i, and Henry K.H. Woo), and various versions of Chinese Marxism, including Kao Li-k'o's in the early 1990s and some of the recent New Left writings. It shows that all these Chinese political theories, not only Chinese Marxism, depend on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The Chinese University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
844
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789629961220
SKU
V9789629961220
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About Thomas Metzger
Received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967, Thomas A. Metzger is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego and has held visiting professorships at National Taiwan Normal University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, East China Normal University, Wuhan University, Peking University, and the Chinese Academy ... Read more
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