Offering critical perspectives on a number of ideological issues that have figured prominently in Chinese intellectual discourse since the beginning of the so-called reform and opening (gaige kaifang) in the late 1970s, these essays range widely in subject matter, from Marxist historiography to sociology and anthropology in China to guoxue/national studies. Together they are conceived as different windows into a basic problem: the deployment of culture and history in postrevolutionary Chinese thought. Dirlik touches on a number of themes, including the repudiation of the revolutionary past after 1978, which has led to a rise of cultural nationalism. He further places these developments within a global context, ultimately making a case methodologically for 'worlding' China: bringing China into the world, and the world into China.
- ISBN10 9629964740
- ISBN13 9789629964740
- Publish Date 30 January 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country HK
- Imprint The Chinese University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9789629964740