Moral China in the Age of Reform

Bibliographic Data

ID19904040
AuthorsJiwei Ci (University of Hong Kong, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages242
Publication date2014-08-11
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueMoral China in the Age of Reform (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139839228
OpenAlexW1846219028
Open LibraryOL29222614M
ISBN9781139839228
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited23

Three decades of dizzying change in China's economy and society have left a tangible record of successes and failures. Less readily accessible but of no less consequence is the story, as illuminated in this book, of what China's reform has done to its people as moral and spiritual beings. Jiwei Ci examines the moral crisis in post-Mao China as a mirror of deep contradictions in the new self as well as in society. He seeks to show that lack of freedom, understood as the moral and political conditions for subjectivity under modern conditions of life, lies at the root of these contradictions, just as enhanced freedom offers the only appropriate escape from them. Rather than a ready-made answer, however, freedom is treated throughout as a pressing question in China's search for a better moral and political culture

China · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Root (linguistics) · Sociology · Subjectivity · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Democracy · History & Theory · Liberty · Moral and ethical aspects · Moral conditions · Political Culture · politics and government