Intellectual in Modern Chinese History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Timothy Cheek, Vancouver) Cheek, Timothy (University of British Columbia

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This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map and a method for understanding the intellectual in the long twentieth century, from China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895 to the 'Prosperous China' since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Cheek surveys the changing terrain of intellectual life over this transformative century in Chinese history to enable readers to understand a particular figure, idea or debate. The map provides coordinates to track different times, different social worlds and key concepts. The historical method focuses on context and communities during six periods to make sense of ideas, institutions and individual thinkers across the century. Together they provide a memorable account of the scenes and protagonists, and arguments and ideas, of intellectuals and public life in modern China.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-07
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt700 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor396
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107021419

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Timothy Cheek began studying China at the Australian National University in the 1970s and has travelled to China and worked with Chinese colleagues since 1981. After receiving his PhD in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 1986 he taught in the US until 2002 when he took up his chair at the University of British Columbia. His research, teaching and translating focus on the recent history of China, especially the role of Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century and the history of the Chinese Communist Party. His books include Living with Reform: China since 1989 (2006), Mao Zedong and China's Revolutions (2002) and Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China (1997), as well as New Perspectives on State Socialism in China (1997, edited with Tony Saich), The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao (1989, translated and edited with Roderick MacFarquhar and Eugene Wu), and China's Establishment Intellectuals (1986, edited with Carol Lee Hamrin). Most recently, he has edited A Critical Introduction to Mao (2010) and co-edited with Stuart R. Schram Volume 3 of Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912–1949 (2015). In recent years he has been working with some Chinese intellectuals to explore avenues of communication and cooperation to address problems of global change.

Introduction: for the public good; 1. Reform: making China fit the world (1895–1915); 2. Revolution: awakening new China (1915–35); 3. Rejuvenation: organizing China (1936–56); 4. Revolutionary revival: overthrowing the lords of nation-building (1957–76); 5. Reviving reform: correcting revolutionary errors (1976–95); 6. Rejuvenation: securing the Chinese dream (1996–2015); Conclusion: intellectuals, China and the world; Who's who: intellectuals featured in the main text; Further reading; Bibliography; Index.