China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society
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China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

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What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published May 1st 2008 by Princeton University Press (first published April 7th 2008)
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Rui
Apr 19, 2013 Rui rated it 3 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition
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Political and moral ideas partially based in Confucian ideas, for the new China. To me the most interesting part of this book are the proposed forms of government for China.
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May 22, 2008 trivialchemy added it Recommends it for: People on trans-Pacific flights.
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Professor Bell managed to take very dry material, and make it dry.

Not a bad book -- many thought-provoking moments; but if you aren't either (1) very interested in Chinese culture and governance or (2) on a 14-hour flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong with nothing else to read, then you're probably not going to get through it.
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