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The great dragon fantasy : a Lacanian analysis of contemporary Chinese thought /

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-a-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wu, Guanjun (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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-a-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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 406 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-392) and index.
ISBN:9789814417921
9814417920