The Great Dragon Fantasy

A Lacanian Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Thought

Business & Finance, Economics, Economic Development, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
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Author: Guanjun Wu ISBN: 9789814417938
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication: May 21, 2014
Imprint: WSPC Language: English
Author: Guanjun Wu
ISBN: 9789814417938
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication: May 21, 2014
Imprint: WSPC
Language: English

China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-à-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China's prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus shows how the fervor for discovering “essential characteristics” of Chinese thought reveals a hidden psychological mechanism.

Contents:

  • The Fantasmatic Narrative of Contemporary Chinese Thought
  • Descendants of a Blurry-Eyed Dragon
  • New Enlightenment as Modernization
  • “Traumatic” Encounters with Postmodernism
  • Liberals and New Leftists as “Discursive Enemies”
  • China's New Nationalism and Its Obscene Core
  • Narrating the Fantasmatic Past: Ancient and Recent
  • Traversing the Fantasy

Readership: Academics, professionals, Sinologists, advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in China studies.
Key Features:

  • Helps acquire a better understanding of China's developments and problems in the post-Maoist era and contributes substantial new knowledge about classical and contemporary Chinese ideas
  • Offers critical analyses of various recent accounts of the “China path” or the “China model”
  • Exemplifies that Lacanian psychoanalysis indeed can be a useful — indeed, powerful — methodological approach in the field of Sinology and China Studies
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China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-à-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China's prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus shows how the fervor for discovering “essential characteristics” of Chinese thought reveals a hidden psychological mechanism.

Contents:

Readership: Academics, professionals, Sinologists, advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in China studies.
Key Features:

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