Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10971467.2017.1435934
Chen Shaoming
EDITOR’S ABSTRACT This is a reflection on the notion of “self,” primarily on the basis of a story in the Zhuangzi in which the protagonist claims: “I lost myself.” Chen first reiterates the grammatical differences between the uses of 吾 (wu) and 我 (wo), and continues with a reflection on their philosophical meaning. He argues that the notion of “wo” is more spatial, connected to the body, and distinguished from others; “wu” is more temporal, related to one’s memory and self-understanding. The loss of “wo” by “wu” is a liberation from interpersonal tensions and the emphasis on one’s body.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10971467.2017.1383807
Zhu Xueqin
EDITORS’ ABSTRACT In this article, Zhu Xueqin provides an overall view of Rousseau’s political philosophy as he discusses Rousseau’s notion of the general will, the social contract, and the differences between Rousseau and thinkers such as Hobbes and Locke. Zhu argues that Rousseau’s political philosophy is deeply flawed as it advocates a moralization of politics that seeks to build a heavenly kingdom on earth, an ideal that has left a significant imprint on the modern world.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10971467.2017.1383806
Zhu Xueqin
EDITORS’ ABSTRACT This article contains the preface, introduction, and epilogue of Zhu Xueqin’s influential book The Demise of the Republic of Virtue: From Rousseau to Robespierre (1994). In the preface, Zhu describes Chinese and international scholarship on Rousseau, his own intellectual formation as a member of the Cultural Revolution generation, and the overall purpose of the book. In the introduction, Zhu briefly outlines the transformation of medieval “theological politics” into modern “political theology,” or his central concern of the merger between moral idealism and the political state. Finally, in the epilogue, Zhu nevertheless still seeks to rescue Rousseau by arguing that history is created by both a priori and empirical forces and that a dialogue between deconstruction and construction is required. However, for “political theology” to end, boundaries have to be set to moral idealism and it needs to be disconnected from the political state.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10971467.2017.1383805
E. van Dongen, Yuan-chin Chang
ABSTRACT This article reviews Zhu Xueqin’s (b. 1952) writings on Jean-Jacques Rousseau against the background of the reception of Rousseau in China since the late nineteenth century. Rousseau was both an advocate and critic of the Enlightenment, and his work hence appealed to many Chinese intellectuals who struggled with the conundrum of how to modernize. During the late nineteenth century, Chinese supporters of Rousseau drew on his work to defend the viability of revolution. During the 1990s, following the tragedy of Tiananmen and the decline of socialism, Rousseau served to reflect on China’s twentieth-century trajectory and the disastrous political consequences of collective moral idealism. For Zhu Xueqin, a key question was: Why were the French Revolution and the Cultural Revolution so similar?
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10971467.2015.1262625
Bei Cun
EDITOR’S ABSTRACT Bei Cun’s article is short and not written in an academic style but as a reflective essay. The essay is theological, discussing sin, authority, and resurrection, but it is also spiritually political, discussing how the Chinese people should choose its future path and what is true authority. It was originally published in the April 2011 issue of the lifestyle magazine Xinrui (Thinkers’ Letter), not in a literary or philosophical journal.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10971467.2015.1262626
Yiming Wang
EDITOR’S ABSTRACT Wang Yi’s article deals with the role of house churches, that is, unregistered churches. In his evaluation of the different branches of house churches Wang Yi touches upon issues of identity and the future of China, and he also harshly criticizes the Chinese party-state, claiming that “China is becoming a tumor in the world.”
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10971467.2015.1262631
Zhao Changping
EDITOR’S ABSTRACT Zha Changping takes inspiration from Western art theories and applies them to a contemporary Chinese context. The article has an ontological perspective, discussing how the concept of “relational aesthetics” manifests in Chinese contemporary art. It also discusses its relation to the history of ideas. The focus is on art, but the ontological perspectives on creation and humanity are universal.
{"title":"The History of Ideas in Pioneering Contemporary Chinese Art—Art History Writing and Relational Aesthetics","authors":"Zhao Changping","doi":"10.1080/10971467.2015.1262631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10971467.2015.1262631","url":null,"abstract":"EDITOR’S ABSTRACT Zha Changping takes inspiration from Western art theories and applies them to a contemporary Chinese context. The article has an ontological perspective, discussing how the concept of “relational aesthetics” manifests in Chinese contemporary art. It also discusses its relation to the history of ideas. The focus is on art, but the ontological perspectives on creation and humanity are universal.","PeriodicalId":42082,"journal":{"name":"CONTEMPORARY CHINESE THOUGHT","volume":"47 1","pages":"286 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10971467.2015.1262631","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59667294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10971467.2015.1262610
Fredrik Fällman
ABSTRACT The article sets Christianity into the perspective of contemporary China and its challenges, and discusses the role of intellectuals, from the “Cultural Christians” of the 1980s to the younger generation of “public intellectual” Christians of today. The five scholars represented in this issue are presented and put into context as voices in contemporary Chinese society.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10971467.2015.1262628
L. Ping
EDITOR’S ABSTRACT Liu Ping discusses patriotism and nationalism in regard to culture and values and also the role of the prophetic voice in Chinese society. His provocative allegorical rewriting of a prophecy from the Biblical book of Amos, setting it in contemporary China, is pointedly political. Liu writes in the Chinese intellectual tradition of pointing out when a society or a country is on the brink of destruction.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10971467.2015.1262629
Xia Kejun
EDITOR’S ABSTRACT Inspired by French scholar Marie-José Mondzain, this paper deals with the Holy Spirit and how the gift of the Spirit can provide for a different authority and economy. Xia also deals with the concept of icons (in a wide sense) and the Chinese concept of “face,” touching upon issues of identity and authority, and giving three Kantian “imperatives” for “spiritual” gift giving in the Chinese context.
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