During the last 30 years, China has been experiencing rapid economic and social
transformations. The reform introduced in 1978 was based on the rejection of Mao Zedong's …

Cast in the very broadest of historical terms, the shift of China into the modern world has
been peculiarly long drawn out and difficult. Beginning with the depredations of European …

Ideas are powerful forces in the shaping of the course of human events. When, in the early
1830s, Heinrich Heine, out of his concern for the future of Europe, wrote his Concerning the …

In 2003 the unashamedly pro-neoliberal Heritage Foundation ranked China as 127th out of
157 countries in a league table of economic freedom in 2003—and ranked China as less …

Since the late 1970s, there have been lively and intellectually rigorous debates on the
reform and opening up policy in China. Ma Licheng, a well-known liberal journalist in China …

In recent years, some East Asian states have enjoyed rapid economic development, even
though they are governed by regimes which are difficult to characteriseas “liberal'. It has …

The new materialism underlying economic modernization in post-Mao China rests on the
principles of the primacy of productivity over ideology, use of incentives based on material …

On the material side of the equation, China's pragmatic authoritarians have certain
advantages. They can target and manage the benefits of breakneck growth to ensure that …

The first self-conscious advocacy of a liberal political program in China did not appear until
the late nineteenth century, when monarchical advisors including Tan Sitong, Kang Youwei …

In this book, author Jinghao Zhou uses for the first time the prism of public philosophy to
examine Chinese society, modernization, globalization, and democratization as a whole …