The Great Dragon Fantasy
A Lacanian Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Thought
Business & Finance, Economics, Economic Development, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
| Author: | Guanjun Wu | ISBN: | 9789814417938 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company | Publication: | May 21, 2014 |
| Imprint: | WSPC | Language: | English |
| Author: | Guanjun Wu |
| ISBN: | 9789814417938 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company |
| Publication: | May 21, 2014 |
| Imprint: | WSPC |
| Language: | English |
China 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.
Contents:
- The 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
- Narrating the Fantasmatic Past: Ancient and Recent
- Traversing the Fantasy
Readership: Academics, professionals, Sinologists, advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in China studies.
Key Features:
- Helps acquire a better understanding of China's developments and problems in the post-Maoist era and contributes substantial new knowledge about classical and contemporary Chinese ideas
- Offers critical analyses of various recent accounts of the “China path” or the “China model”
- Exemplifies that Lacanian psychoanalysis indeed can be a useful — indeed, powerful — methodological approach in the field of Sinology and China Studies
China 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.
Contents:
- The 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
- Narrating the Fantasmatic Past: Ancient and Recent
- Traversing the Fantasy
Readership: Academics, professionals, Sinologists, advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in China studies.
Key Features:
- Helps acquire a better understanding of China's developments and problems in the post-Maoist era and contributes substantial new knowledge about classical and contemporary Chinese ideas
- Offers critical analyses of various recent accounts of the “China path” or the “China model”
- Exemplifies that Lacanian psychoanalysis indeed can be a useful — indeed, powerful — methodological approach in the field of Sinology and China Studies
