China's New Confucianism : Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bell, Daniel A.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Social sciences.
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Political science.
Confucianism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
social sciences.
Sciences sociales.
Confucianisme > Chine.
Confucianism > China.
China.
Chine > Conditions sociales > 2000-
China > Social conditions > 2000-
China > Politics and government > 2002-
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal experiences to paint an unexpected portrait of a society undergoing faster and more sweeping changes than anywhere else on earth. With a storyteller's eye for detail, Daniel Bell observes the rituals, routines, and tensions o.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9781400834822

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