CURRENT CULTURAL POLITICS IN CHINA: WHAT MAKES THE CHINESE TICK?

Abstract

The article begins with an analysis of China's past in terms of the interplay between Confucian teaching, local, or folk, tradition and the impact of foreign culture. There then follows an examination of the current situation in terms of continuity and change, with particular emphasis on alienation and the rise of nationalism in a post-Marxist society. The article concludes with a critique of Wolf Totem.

This is the edited text of the lecture which he delivered to the Society on 15 November 2008

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This is the edited text of the lecture which he delivered to the Society on 15 November 2008

Xinhua News Agency. ‘Langmang de zhongguo, mengxiang de shijie–zong daoyan Zhang Yimou zhuanfang’ [‘Romantic China, Dream world–a Special Interview with General Director Zhang Yimou’]. Available at http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/200808/news-gb2312-671284.html

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Christopher R. Hughes

Christopher Hughes is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)