The philosophical basis for the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party is dialectical materialism. The general, definitive version never superseded up till the present, is set out in the works "On Practice" and "On Contradiction", of which Mao Tse-tung is officially named as author in China. The present work sets out to open up the sources from which Chinese dialectical materialism originated. The path to these sources leads to Shanghai in the 1930's, where a philosophical controversy raged among intellectuals with a leftist orientation. The object of this contraversy was the "New Philosophy", identical to Soviet dialectical materialism, of which the literature has been translated into Chinese since the early 1930s. This work reveals the background to the contraversy and traces the process of development which ended in dialectical materialism standing as a self-contained system. It also examines the effects of this system both on the intra-party decision-making processes and in relation to society as a whole, and seeks to establish how much importance should be attached to Chinese dialectical materialism in the framework of the general reception of Western thought in China.
- ISBN10 1850650861
- ISBN13 9781850650867
- Publish Date 31 August 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 January 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English