State-Society Relations and Confucian Revivalism in Contemporary China
This book is a study of the causes of the Confucian revival and the party-state’s response in China today. It concentrates on the interactions between state and society, and the implications for the Chinese state’s control over society, or in other words,
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QIN PANG
State-Society Relations and Confucian Revivalism in Contemporary China
Qin Pang
State-Society Relations and Confucian Revivalism in Contemporary China
Qin Pang Sun Yat-Sen University Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Preface
Whether the Chinese state can effectively control an increasingly powerful and autonomous society produced by China’s rapid economic modernization remains a major debate of Chinese politics. This book contributes to a crucial but often neglected aspect of the debate, specifically whether the Chinese state can properly structure different ideologies and beliefs generated amid a modernizing society. This is significant in that the Chinese Communist Party (hereafter CCP) remains a Leninist party which still relies on its official ideology to energize the loyalty of its rank-and-file members. The state, moreover, as a post-totalitarian regime, still resorts to the official ideology to win at least part of its ruling legitimacy with the public. Hence, whether the Chinese state can keep non-official ideologies and beliefs within its grip remains critical for its control over society. This book explores the issue by examining an important case, specifically, the state’s engagement with the revival of Confucianism in China’s urban
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