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Democracy In China: Challenge Or Opportunity

By: Keping Yu

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Democracy In China: Challenge Or Opportunity

By: Keping Yu

Authored by Professor Yu Keping, a famous Chinese political scholar, this book focuses on the core issues of democracy and the rule of law in China. It provides the readers with insights into China's political development in the past 60 years and the changes in China's governance in the past 30 years, especially pertaining to democracy in China's governance. The book encapsulates Prof Yu's reform ideas on political development in China, and gives the readers a glimpse into the future of China's democracy.

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World Scientific

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9814641545

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Globalization and Changes in China's Governance

By: Keping Yu

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Globalization and Changes in China's Governance

By: Keping Yu

China has witnessed great economic, political and societal changes since the reform and opening up in 1978. As China's economic system has been experiencing fundamental changes, China’s structure of governance has also been substantially altered in response to globalization. A unique model of political development is underway in China, which differs considerably from those conceived under both traditional socialist and liberal Western models. Globalization and Changes in China’s Governance, now available in English translation, tackles these issues of global importance through the analytical prowess of one of China’s leading intellectuals. This volume is an essential resource for readers tracking the rapid changes in China’s political and economic systems and for those interested in the work of public intellectuals in the PRC.

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BRILL

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9047442555

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9789047442554

Democracy Is a Good Thing

Essays on Politics, Society, and Culture in Contemporary China

By: Yu Keping

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Democracy Is a Good Thing

Essays on Politics, Society, and Culture in Contemporary China

By: Yu Keping

Democracy is a good thing. This is true not only for individuals or certain officials but also for the entire nation and for all the people of China."–Yu Keping So begins "Democracy Is a Good Thing," an essay of great influence that has commanded attention and provoked discussion throughout the world. It is the touchstone of this important volume of the same name. As one of China's foremost political thinkers and a leading proponent of democratizing the People's Republic, Yu Keping is a major figure not only in his native land, but also in the international community. This book brings together much of his most important work and makes it readily accessible to readers in the West for the first time. "Democracy Is a Good Thing" created a stir internationally. Perhaps more important, however, is the heated debate it spurred within China on the desirability of democratic reform. That important essay appears here, along with several of Yu Keping's other influential works on politics, culture, and civil society. His topics include China's economic modernization, its institutional environment, and the cultural changes that have accompanied the nation's reforms. Democracy Is a Good Thing pulls back the curtain to reveal ongoing discourse in Chinese political and intellectual circles, discussions that will go a long way toward determining the future of the world's most populous nation.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815701675

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9780815701675

Chinese Culture of Intelligence

By: Keping Wang

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Chinese Culture of Intelligence

By: Keping Wang

With the rise of China in the 21st century, this book offers a trans-cultural and thematic study of key Chinese concepts which influence modern day Chinese thinking across the spheres of politics, economics and society. It reflects on the major schools of Chinese thought including Confucianism, Daoism and Zen Buddhism, providing a historical perspective on the ideological development of China in terms of the relationship between man and nature, social ethics, political governance, poetry education, aesthetic criticism and art theory. It also explores primary aspects of Chinese poetics and aesthetics with reference to the interaction between the endogenous theories and their western counterparts. Written by a leader in Chinese Aesthetics against the background of both globalization and glocalization at home and abroad, this is a key read for all those interested in the cultural, philosophical and aesthetic underpinnings of contemporary China.

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Springer

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9811331731

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Applied Electrostatics (ICAES 2004)

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Applied Electrostatics

By: SUN SUN KEPING,Gefei Yu

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Applied Electrostatics (ICAES 2004)

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Applied Electrostatics

By: SUN SUN KEPING,Gefei Yu

This proceedings contains papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Applied Electrostatics held in Shanghai, China on November 2--5,2004. The ICAES 2004 Conference is of wide interest, as is shown by the contributions received from 11 countries and districts throughout the world. About 90 researchers attend the conference and more than 100 papers were submitted for presentation in the proceedings. The paper sessions covered following topics: - fundamentals and physics - applications (precipitation, pollution control, spray, separation, material, Ozone, etc.) - hazards and problems - biology technology - electrets - measuring technology - electromagnetic compatibility and others These papers demonstrated recent research level and developing trends of the entire electrostatic field.

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411

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Elsevier

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0080527426

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9780080527420

Religion and Charity

The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies

By: Robert P. Weller,C. Julia Huang,Keping Wu,Lizhu Fan

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Religion and Charity

The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies

By: Robert P. Weller,C. Julia Huang,Keping Wu,Lizhu Fan

Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market institutions of society - the family, the state, and social institutions. The first in-depth anthropological study of charities in contemporary Chinese societies, this book focuses on the unique ways that religious groups have helped to solve the problems of social well-being. Using comparative case studies in China, Taiwan and Malaysia during the 1980s and onwards, it identifies new forms of religious philanthropy as well as new ideas of social 'good', including different forms of political merit-making, new forms of civic selfhood, and the rise of innovative social forms, including increased leadership by women. The book finally argues that the spread of these ideas is an incomplete process, with many alternative notions of goodness continuing to be influential.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108314260

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Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy

By: Keping Wang

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Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy

By: Keping Wang

This book considers the Chinese conception of beauty from a historical perspective with regard to its significant relation to human personality and human existence. It examines the etymological implications of the pictographic character mei, the totemic symbolism of beauty, the ferocious beauty of the bronzeware. Further on, it proceeds to look into the conceptual progression of beauty in such main schools of thought as Confucianism, Daoism and Chan Buddhism. Then, it goes on to illustrate through art and literature the leading principles of equilibriumharmony, spontaneous naturalness, subtle void and synthetic possibilities. It also offers a discussion of modern change and transcultural creation conducted with particular reference to the theory of the poetic state par excellence (yi jing shuo) and that of art as sedimentation (ji dian shuo).

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Springer Nature

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9811617147

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Harmonism as an Alternative

By: Keping Wang

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Harmonism as an Alternative

By: Keping Wang

This Key Concepts pivot considers the fundamental Chinese cultural ideal of harmony (hé/和). Historically originating from Confucianism, the concept of harmony sits at the heart of Chinese traditional culture, which is characteristically morality-based and harmony-conscious due to the central role of pragmatic reason and wisdom nurtured through Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism and other schools of thought. This pivot delineates the rationale of the Chinese philosophy of harmony and its implications for modern social practices worldwide. It notably reexamines the relevance of hé beyond the realm of philosophy, and how this concept can impact on modern day human relations, amongst individuals and families as well as on a wider societal scale. It explores how hé can affect perspectives on political interaction, international relations and human conflict, as well as the interaction between man and nature. Addressing the inevitable tension between theory and practice, this book argues for the very real relevance of hé in 21st century cultural, social, political and economic spheres in China and beyond.

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159

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Springer

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9811335648

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Reading the Dao

A Thematic Inquiry

By: Keping Wang

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Reading the Dao

A Thematic Inquiry

By: Keping Wang

The Dao De Jing represents one of the most important works of Chinese philosophy, in which the author, Lao Zi (c. 580-500 BC), lays the foundations of Taoism. Composed of 81 short sections, the text itself is written in a poetic style that is ambiguous and challenging for the modern reader. Yet while its meaning may be obscure, the text displays the originality of Lao Zi's wisdom and remains a hugely influential work to this day. In Reading the Dao: A Thematic Inquiry, Wang Keping offers a clear and accessible guide to this hugely important text. Wang's thematic approach opens up key elements of the Dao De Jing in a way that highlights and clarifies the central arguments for the modern reader. Presenting comprehensive textual analysis of key passages and a useful survey of recent Taoist scholarship, the book provides the reader with an insight into the origins of Taoist philosophy. This is the ideal companion to the study of this classic Taoist text.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441196641

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Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy

By: Keping Wang

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Chinese Culture of Intelligence

By: Keping Wang

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Harmonism as an Alternative

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Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy

By: Roger T. Ames,Jinhua Jia

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Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy

By: Roger T. Ames,Jinhua Jia

For more than a century scholars both inside and outside of China have undertaken the project of modernizing Confucianism, but few have been as successful or influential as Li Zehou (b. 1930). Since the 1950s, Li’s extensive efforts in this regard have in turn exerted a profound influence on Chinese modernization and resulted in his becoming one of China’s most prominent social critics. To transform Confucianism into a contemporary resource for positive change in China and elsewhere, Li has reinterpreted major ideas and concepts of classical Confucianism, including a rereading of the entire Analects, replete with his own philosophical speculations derived from other Chinese and Western traditions (most notably, the ideas of Kant and Marx), and developed an aesthetical theory that has proved especially far-reaching. Although the authors of this volume hail from East Asia, North America, and Europe and a wide variety of academic backgrounds and fields of study, they are unanimous in their appreciation of Li’s contributions to not only an evolving Confucian philosophy, but also world philosophy. They view Li first and foremost as a sui generis thinker with broad global interests and not one who fits neatly into any one philosophical category, Chinese or Western. This is clearly reflected in the chapters included here, which are organized into three parts: Li Zehou and the Modernization of Confucianism, Li Zehou’s Reconception of Confucian Philosophy, and Li Zehou’s Aesthetical Theory and Confucianism. Together they form a coherent narrative that reveals how Li has, for more than half a century, creatively studied, absorbed, and reconceptualized the Confucian ideational tradition to integrate it with Western philosophical elements and develop his own philosophical insights and original theories. At the same time, he has transformed and modernized Confucianism for the purpose of both coalescing with and reconstructing a new world cultural order.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824876105

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Globalization and Changes in China's Governance

By: Keping Yu

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Globalization and Changes in China's Governance

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Book's by Keping Wang

Democracy In China: Challenge Or Opportunity

Democracy In China: Challenge Or Opportunity

Globalization and Changes in China's Governance

Globalization and Changes in China's Governance

Democracy Is a Good Thing

Democracy Is a Good Thing

Chinese Culture of Intelligence

Chinese Culture of Intelligence

Applied Electrostatics (ICAES 2004)

Applied Electrostatics (ICAES 2004)

Religion and Charity

Religion and Charity

Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy

Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy

Harmonism as an Alternative

Harmonism as an Alternative

Reading the Dao

Reading the Dao

Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy

Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy

Chinese Culture of Intelligence

Chinese Culture of Intelligence

Harmonism as an Alternative

Harmonism as an Alternative

Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy

Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy

Globalization and Changes in China's Governance

Globalization and Changes in China's Governance

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