Remaking China's Public Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century

Foreword by Derek H. Davis......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 24
1. Introduction......Page 26
Raising the Issue of Remaking China’s Public Philosophy......Page 28
The Significance of Remaking China’s Public Philosophy......Page 33
The Theory of Public Philosophy......Page 37
A New Public Philosophy in the Chinese Context......Page 43
Notes......Page 48
Why Study China’s History?......Page 50
The Characteristics of Historic China......Page 55
The Roots of the Chinese Political System......Page 62
Chinese Society and Chinese Patriarchal Religion......Page 67
Conclusion......Page 70
Notes......Page 72
3. Ideological Battles through Centuries......Page 74
China’s Ideology and the Global Social Order......Page 75
Confucianism as the Dominant Ideology in Premodern China......Page 78
The Three People’s Principles in Theory and Practice......Page 86
Marxism in Contemporary China......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 94
Notes......Page 95
4. The Real Dangers behind Chinese Economic Prosperity......Page 100
The Theoretical Roots of China’s Economy......Page 101
The Historical Inquiry: China’s Economic Reform Movement......Page 104
Significance and Shortcomings of the Reform Movement......Page 108
The Official Philosophy behind China’s Economic Reform Movement......Page 114
Conclusion......Page 120
Notes......Page 121
5. The Last Fortress of Antidemocratization......Page 126
The Ultimate Obstacle to China’s Political Reform......Page 127
Why China’s Democratic Movement Failed......Page 132
Should China Be Ruled by the Party?......Page 137
The Status of the Individual in Communist China......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 145
Notes......Page 146
6. A Rapier: The Functions of Religion in China’s Democratization......Page 150
The Connections between Religion and Democratization......Page 151
Religious Tradition in China......Page 155
Confucianism as the Dominant Chinese Religion......Page 157
Chinese Religions and Christianity Together Serve Democratization......Page 160
The Party, Marxism, Religion, and Democratization......Page 164
Conclusion......Page 170
Notes......Page 173
7. The Double Missions of Chinese Education......Page 178
The Shadow of Chinese Traditional Education......Page 179
Education under the Chinese Communist Government......Page 184
Unresolved Educational Problems......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 197
Notes......Page 198
8. Remaking China’s Public Philosophy and China’s Future......Page 202
The Capitalist System and China’s Democratization......Page 204
Has China Changed Its Socialist Identity?......Page 207
Globalization and Challenges......Page 211
The Future of China......Page 216
Notes......Page 223
Bibliography......Page 228
Index......Page 246