China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

by Daniel A Bell

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What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal experiences to paint an unexpected portrait of a society undergoing faster and more sweeping changes than anywhere else on earth. With a storyteller's eye for detail, Daniel Bell observes the rituals, routines, and tensions of daily...Read more
  • ISBN10 0691145857
  • ISBN13 9780691145853
  • Publish Date 9 May 2010 (first published 27 April 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Princeton University Press