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  • Falun Gong and the Future of China

    by David Ownby ...
    On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality against fellow practitioners in the neighboring city of Tianjin. Stunned and surprised, China's leaders launched a campaign of brutal suppression against the group which continues to this day. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Voices from the Chinese Century

    Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China

    Edited by Joshua Fogel, Timothy Cheek, David Ownby ...
    China’s increasing prominence on the global stage has caused consternation and controversy among Western thinkers, especially since the financial crisis of 2008. But what do Chinese intellectuals themselves have to say about their country’s newfound influence and power? Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Making Saints in Modern China

    Edited by David Ownby, Vincent Goossaert, Ji Zhe ...
    "Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolution, and the discomfort of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted religious leaders have succeeded in rebuilding old institutions and creating new ones despite the Chinese government's censure. This book offers a ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • Rethinking China's Rise

    A Liberal Critique

    by Jilin Xu, David Ownby ...
    Series series The Cambridge China Library
    China's rise to power is the signal event of the twenty-first century, and this volume offers a contemporary view of this nation in ascendancy from the inside. Eight recent essays by Xu Jilin, a popular historian and one of China's most prominent public intellectuals, critique China's rejection of universal values and the nation's embrace of Chinese particularism, the rise of the cult of the state ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • China and the West

    A Pragmatic Confucian’s View

    by Yao Yang ...
    Translated by David Ownby ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is an authored volume of Dr. Yao's “big-picture” writings on China and the West, translated by David Ownby. Those writings are selected from his writings as a public intellectual, reflecting his thought on China’s path of modernization and the effort to rebuild a political philosophy based on Confucianism, his interpretation of China’s political system and his prescriptions to improve it. A ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • The Transcendental and the Mundane

    Chinese Cultural Values in Everyday Life

    by Cho-yun Hsu ...
    Translated by David Ownby ...
    Revisiting the foundation of Chinese spiritual life, the prestigious historian Cho-yun Hsu seeks a way to connect Chinese culture with the world.This book is an insightful and lively discussion of the spiritual life of the Chinese people. Through investigation of cultural ideals and life practices, Professor Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese cultural values. Apart from the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Voices from the Chinese Century

    Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China

    Edited by Joshua Fogel, Timothy Cheek, David Ownby ...
    China’s increasing prominence on the global stage has caused consternation and controversy among Western thinkers, especially since the financial crisis of 2008. But what do Chinese intellectuals themselves have to say about their country’s newfound influence and power? Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia

    Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia

    by David Ownby, Mary F. Somers Heidhues ...
    A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Self as Method

    Thinking Through China and the World

    by Biao Xiang, Qi Wu ...
    Translated by David Ownby ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao ... Read more

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    Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening?

    by Huaihong He ...
    Series series The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
    Over the past half-century, China has experienced some incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism and the loss of education for an entire generation during the Cultural Revolution, to the Tiananmen tragedy, the economic miracle, and its accompanying fad of money worship and the rampancy of official corruption. Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening? ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China

    by Yingjie Guo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    In the vast majority of literature on 'Chinese nationalism' the distinction between nation and state is rarely made, consequently nationalism usually appears as loyalty to the state rather than identification with the nation. Yet, since 1989, both the official configuration of the nation and the state's monopolized right to name the nation have come under rigorous challenge. Cultural Nationalism ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • China

    The Pessoptimist Nation

    by William A. Callahan ...
    The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically and culturally. Callahan meets this challenge in China: The Pessoptimist Nation by using new Chinese sources and innovative analysis to see how Chinese people understand their new place in the world. To chart the trajectory of its rise, the book shifts from examining China's national interests to ... Read more

    $35.09 USD