State-Society Relations and Confucian Revivalism in Contemporary China

• Main Author: Pang, Qin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Asia-Politics and government.; Religion and sociology.; International business enterprises.; Asia-Economic conditions.; Asian Politics.; Religion and Society.; Asian Business.

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, its survival over a rapidly modern...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. China's Mutually Empowering State and Society Relations
• 3. The Chinese State's Decentralized Response Towards the Confucian Revival and Its Institutional Base
• 4. The Confucian Revival among Intellectuals and the State Responses
• 5. Confucianism with Consent: The Revival of "Confucian Entrepreneur" and the Chinese State's Responses
• 6. Attenuation, Appropriation, and Adaptation: The Confucian Revival Among the Urban Middle Class and the Chinese State's Responses
• 7. Conclusions.