Introduction: Thinking China in the Age of Xi Jinping

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Thinking China in the Age of Xi Jinping 1
4. PART I: THE CHALLENGE
5. 1. “Unifying the Three Traditions” in the New Era (selection) (2005) 29
6. PART II: LIBERAL VOICES
7. 2. Liberalism in the Chinese Context (2004) 45
8. 3. A China Bereft of Thought (2013) 72
9. 4. Original Intentions Start with the People (2017) 104
10. 5. “The Shadow of Communist Civilization”: A Gongshi Wang ( Consensus Net) Interview (2013) 110
11. 6. Advancing Constitutional Democracy Should Be the Mission of the Chinese Communist Party (2013) 134
12. 7. “I Am a Child of the Nineteenth Century”: The Last Twenty Years of Wang Yuanhua’s Life (2008) 155
13. PART III: LEFT VOICES
14. 8. Mao Zedong and His Era (2012) 175
15. 9. From Authoritarian Government to Constitutional Democracy (2012) 198
16. 10. Liberalism: For the Aristocrats or for the People? (1999) 209
17. 11. Representative Democracy and Representational Democracy (2014) 222
18. 12. The Significance of Borders (2017) 267
19. PART IV: NEW CONFUCIAN VOICES
20. 13. Kang Youwei and Institutional Confucianism (2014) 281
21. 14. A Century of Confucianism (2014) 306
22. 15. Only Confucians Can Make a Place for Modern Women (2015) 318
23. Glossary of Names and Terms 343
24. List of Essays Translated in This Volume, with Original Titles 361
25. Contributors 363
26. Index 367