Chinese Political Culture

Until this book, there has been no comprehensive, methodologically aware study of all aspects of Chinese political culture. The book is organized into three major areas: Chinese identities and popular culture (regional identities, anti-politics attitudes, Hong Kong identity); public opinion surveys (the Beijing area, Chinese workers, the Shanghai area); and ideological debates (the "new" Confucianism, masculinity and Confucianism, why authoritarianism is popular in China, the decline of Chinese official ideology). Here is the first work that reveals just how much, how rapidly, and how dramatically China is changing and why our perceptions of China must keep pace. Introduction: Some Paradigmatic Issues in the Study of Chinese Political Culture; I: The Chinese Cultural Tradition and Its Modern Face; 1: Sage, Teacher, Businessman: Confucius as a Model Male; 2: The Changing Concept of Zhong (Loyalty): Emerging New Chinese Political Culture; 3: New Confucianism: A Native Response to Western Philosophy; II: Socialization: Official Ideologies, Literature, and the Media; 4: Still Building the Nation: The Causes and Consequences of China's Patriotic Fervor; 5: Curing the Sickness and Saving the Party: Neo-Maoism and Neo-Conservatism in the 1990s; 6: The Antipolitical Tendency in Contemporary Chinese Political Thinking; 7: Political Culture as Social Construction of Reality: A Case Study of Hong Kong's Images in Mainland China; III: Comparative Political Culture Studies: Social Strata and Regions; 8: Diversification of Chinese Entrepreneurs and Cultural Pluralism in the Reform Era; 9: Provincial Identities and Political Cultures: Modernism, Traditionalism, Parochialism, and Separatism; 10: Political Culture of Election in Taiwanese and Chinese Minority Areas; 11: Religion and Society in China and Taiwan; 12: Culture Shift and Regime Legitimacy: Comparing Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong