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Review. Wang Hui’s China in Twentieth Century

Asia Maior, 2017, Vol.XXVIII [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Viella Libreria Editrice 2017 ;ISSN: 2385-2526 ;EISSN: 2612-6680

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  • Title:
    Review. Wang Hui’s China in Twentieth Century
  • Author: Ardizzoni, Sabrina
  • Subjects: 20th century ; 21st century ; Asian history ; Chinese history ; Cold War ; Concepts ; Culture ; Definitions ; Democracy ; Democratization ; Elaboration ; Equality ; Extremes ; Intellectuals ; Mao Zedong (1893-1976) ; Market economies ; Morality ; Nation states ; Political parties ; Politics ; Socialist societies ; Transformation ; Wang Hui ; Working class
  • Is Part Of: Asia Maior, 2017, Vol.XXVIII
  • Description: According to the author, the transformation of the concept of «equality», and the development of different definitions in single historical and geographical contexts, are the true challenges of the 21st century. The author throws down the gauntlet in the cultural field where contemporary China scholars are involved in the elaboration and re-definition of several concepts: «equality between the city and the country» (p. 251); rethinking the concept of democracy in the global framework of post-political-party policy (p. 164); re-defining the categories that underline the big transformations in contemporary China. [...]the originality with respect to his masterful The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, lies in the fact that, whereas the previous work embraces the years between 1911 and 1978, known as the «century of revolution» or «of extremes», according to Eric Hobsbawm’s periodisation, China’s Twentieth Century not only stretches the timescale as far as 1989, but also makes very meaningful forays into the 21st century. While in the west, at the end of the Cold War, socialist countries collapsed, China not only upheld the integrity of its political structure, population, and size, but was also able, to a certain extent, to make a definite shift from a socialist economy to a market economy while maintaining the structure of the socialist state. [...]the revolutionary state, a one-party-government state, acts as integrator of complex political forces and is the mobiliser of society.
  • Publisher: Rome: Viella Libreria Editrice
  • Language: English;Italian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2385-2526
    EISSN: 2612-6680
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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