Voicing Concerns

Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry

By (author) Gloria Davies Contributions by Geremie R. Barmé, Chen Fong-ching, Jin Guantao, Liu Dong, Liu Qing, Liu Qingfeng, Luo Gang, Tang Yijie, Wang Hui, Xu Jilin, Xue Yi, Ye Xiaoqing, Yue Daiyun

Hardback - £129.00

Publication date:

13 June 2001

Length of book:

288 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742509337

Opening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant influence on the development of contemporary Chinese thought, the volume's contributors explore concerns over the role of the intellectual and the outcomes of knowledge production in the humanities. Masterfully translated, these essays provide a wide range of conflicting perspectives on contemporary Chinese intellectuality, yet they share in common the belief held by many Chinese intellectuals in the power of intellectual labor to shape and change social life. By showing how Western social and cultural theory as well as the May Fourth and pre-modern Confucian traditions are being adapted for contemporary Chinese intellectual use, the book highlights how Chinese academics have affirmed an independent critical role for themselves in post-Mao China and the scope of the knowledge industry that they have created and developed since 1979.
[Voicing Concern] raises large and important theoretical issues concerning and concerned with cultural and intellectual production. It is an engaging read and this significant collection will be of great value to scholars of modern China.