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University of Sydney School of Asian Studies

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Cover of Modernization of the Chinese Past
The loss of direction and the ensuing search for orientation have been an integral part of China's modernisation process, the most serious attempt to find a direction following the Marxist approach that was carried to extremes under the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The essays of this book show the tenacity of old traditions and how by the 1990s there was a clear and vigorous resurgence of old practices and references to the past, and that these in fact were manifestations of a rejection of the Cultural Revolution. The essays include: Star Wars and the Confucian Ethic; Confucianism and Deng's China; The Invention of the Modern Chinese Self; Continuity in the Relationship Between Law and Administration; Changes in the Discourse on Political Morality in the 1980s and 1990s; Secular Karma: The Communist Revolution Understood in Traditional Terms; Before Tradition: the Book of Changes, Yang Lian's Yi and the Affirmation of the Self Through Poetry; Traditional Chinese Music in 1989: The Art Cup; Towards Self-Reliance?: A Selective View of Contemporary Chinese Art; Images of 'Feudal' Marriage in Recent Chinese Films; Irrational Belief Among the Chinese Elite; and Qigong, Daoism and Science: Some Contexts for the Qigong Boom.