China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed Chinas rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-a-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises,MoreChina has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed Chinas rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-a-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.).
This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand Chinas 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.Contents: The Fantasmatic Narrative of Contemporary Chinese ThoughtDescendants of a Blurry-Eyed DragonNew Enlightenment as Modernization Traumatic Encounters with PostmodernismLiberals and New Leftists as Discursive Enemies Chinas New Nationalism and Its Obscene CoreNarrating the Fantasmatic Past: Ancient and RecentTraversing the FantasyReadership: Academics, professionals, Sinologists, advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in China studies.