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Political Thought and China’s Transformation PoliticsandDevelopmentofContemporaryChina AsChina’spowergrows,thesearchhasbeguninearnestforwhatsuperpowerstatus willmeanforthePeople’sRepublicofChinaasanationaswellastheimpactofits new-foundinfluenceontheAsia-Pacificregionandtheglobalinternationalorderat large. By providing a venue for exciting and groundbreaking titles, the aim of this series is to explore the domestic and international implications of China’s rise and transformationthroughanumberofkeyareas,includingpolitics,development,and foreignpolicy.Theserieswillalsogiveastrongvoicetonon-westernperspectiveson China’s rise in order to provide a forum that connects and compares the views of academicsfromboththeeastandwestreflectingthetrulyinternationalnatureofthe discipline. SeriesEditors KevinCai,RenisonUniversityCollege,UniversityofWaterloo,Canada Pan Guang, Shanghai Center for International Studies and Shanghai Academy of SocialSciences,China DanielC.Lynch,SchoolofInternationalRelations,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia, USA Titlesinclude: NadineGodehardt THECHINESECONSTITUTIONOFCENTRALASIA RegionsandIntertwinedActorsinInternationalRelations RobertWeatherley MAKINGCHINASTRONG TheRoleofNationalisminChineseThinkingonDemocracyandHumanRights ShaoyingZhangandDerekMcGhee SOCIALPOLICIESANDETHNICCONFLICTINCHINA LessonsfromXinjiang BartDessein(editor) INTERPRETINGCHINAASAREGIONALANDGLOBALPOWER NationalismandHistoricalConsciousnessinWorldPolitics HeLi POLITICALTHOUGHTANDCHINA’STRANSFORMATION IdeasShapingReforminPost-MaoChina PoliticsandDevelopmentofContemporaryChina SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–1–137–36056–4 (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastanding order.Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetousattheaddress belowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandtheISBNquotedabove. CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS,England Political Thought and China’s Transformation Ideas Shaping Reform in Post-Mao China He Li ProfessorofPoliticalScience,MerrimackCollege,USA ©HeLi2015 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthiswork inaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. 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To Naifang Lu and Bowen Li This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofTables x ANoteonSpelling xi Acknowledgments xii Introduction:IdeasandChina’sTransformation 1 Significanceoftheintellectualdiscourse 2 ContendingdebatesamongtheChineseintellectuals 5 Organizationofthebook 9 Part I ContemporaryChinesePoliticalThought 1 Liberalism 15 Earlyspreadandreemergenceofliberalism 16 Theliberaldiscourse 19 Implicationsofthespreadofliberalism 22 FactorsunderminingliberalisminChina 25 Conclusion 28 2 Neo-authoritarianism 31 Theriseofneo-authoritarianism 31 Huntington’sinfluenceontheriseofneo-authoritarianism inChina 32 Debateinthe1980s 34 Theadventofneo-conservatism 37 Officialpartyideologyandneo-authoritarianism 39 Policyresponse 40 Neo-authoritarianism2.0? 40 Willneo-authoritarianismworkforChina? 43 Conclusion 45 3 China’sNewLeft 46 TheadventoftheNewLeft 47 InfluenceofWesternideas 48 RediscoveryofMao’slegacy 49 RethinkingtheCulturalRevolution 51 Bringingstatesocialismbackin 53 Criticizinguniversalvalues 55 vii viii Contents Promotingthe“ChinaModel” 56 Theriseandfallofthe“ChongqingModel” 57 Conclusion 59 4 DemocraticSocialism 60 Originsandearlyhistory 60 SpreadofsocialdemocracyinChina 61 Intellectualdiscourseonsocialdemocracy 64 Constitutionalgovernment 65 DemocraticsocialismastheorthodoxMarxism 66 Reassessmentofcapitalism 67 Farewelltorevolution 68 Swedishmodelofsocialdemocracy 69 CritiquesfromtheLeftandtheRight 70 BeyondLeftandRight? 73 Coulddemocraticsocialismmakeadifference? 76 Conclusion 77 5 NewConfucianism 79 RevivalofConfucianism 80 Majorapproaches 81 ConfucianMarxism 82 Confucianliberalism 84 PoliticalConfucianism 86 Integrationofthreetraditions? 89 FutureofNewConfucianism 91 Conclusion 93 Part II IntellectualDiscourseonCriticalIssues 6 ChineseIntellectualDiscourseonDemocracy 97 Chinesediscourseondemocracy 98 DemocracywithChinesecharacteristics 98 Inner-partydemocracy(dangneiminzhu) 101 Promotingdemocracythroughgoodgovernance 102 Single-partydemocracy 103 Rulebylaw(Fazhi) 103 Deliberativedemocracy 104 Liberaldiscourseondemocracy 106 Liberaldemocracyisthebestavailableformofgovernment 106 Ruleofthelaw 108 Limitedgovernment 108 Fundamentalpoliticalreform 109 NewLeft’sperspectiveondemocracy 109 Skepticalviewofliberaldemocracy 110 Contents ix Governmentisanecessaryvirtue 111 Marxismnothumanrightsisauniversalvalue 112 Conclusion 113 7 DebatingChina’sEconomicReform 115 Originsofthedebate 116 Thedebateoneconomicreform 117 Marketvs.State 117 Globalismvs.Nationalism 119 Growthvs.Equity 122 Efficiencyvs.Fairness 123 Debateonpropertylaw 124 Impactsandpolicyimplications 126 Conclusion 131 8 DebateoverLegitimacy 133 Legitimacycrisis:Mythorreality 134 Sourcesoflegitimacy 136 Debatesonpossiblesolutionstolegitimacycrisis 140 Liberaldiscourse 140 TheNewLeftperspective 141 DiscourseofpoliticalConfucianism 143 Impactsofthescholarlydiscourseonlegitimacy 146 Conclusion 148 9 Conclusion:FragmentationandConsensus 150 Intellectualdiscourseandstateideologicalcontrol 151 FragmentationandconsensusamongChinesescholars 155 Impactsofintellectualdiscourse 156 Concludingremarks 157 Notes 160 SelectedBibliography 192 IndexofChineseNamesandPhrases 201 SubjectandNameIndex 205
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