Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2019
Abstract
Where is China going? How will it influence world politics in the twenty-first century? Such questions currently vex commentators not only in the West, but within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as well.¹ In his first month as China’s leader in 2012, Xi Jinping addressed this concern when he proposed the ‘China Dream’ (zhongguo meng) as his vision of the PRC’s future direction. Such discussion of directions and dreams is actually part of a broad and ongoing debate about the ‘moral crisis’ that China faces after four decades of economic reform and opening up. Public intellectuals from across the political spectrum, thus, are engaged in ‘patriotic worrying’ (youhuan yishi), where they feel that it is their job to ponder the fate of the nation, and to find the ‘correct formula’ to solve China’s problems.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Political Science | Politics and Social Change
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi
Editor
Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere & Christian Sorace
First Page
275
Last Page
279
ISBN
9781788734769
Publisher
:ANU Press
City or Country
Canberra
Citation
CALLAHAN, William A.. (2019). Surpass. In Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi (pp. 275-279). Canberra: :ANU Press.
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvk3gng9.48