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Social Ethics in a Changing China
Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening?
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2015
Summary
Over the past half-century, China has experienced some incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism and the loss of education for an entire generation during the Cultural Revolution, to the Tiananmen tragedy, the economic miracle, and its accompanying fad of money worship and the rampancy of official corruption. Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening? provides a rich empirical narrative and thought-provoking scholarly arguments, highlighting the imperative for an ethical discourse in a country that is increasingly seen by many as both a materialistic giant and a spiritual dwarf.
Professor He Huaihong was not only an extraordinary firsthand witness to all of these dramas, he played a distinct role as a historian, an ethicist, and a social critic exploring the deeper intellectual and sociological origins of these events. Incorporating ethical theories with his expertise in culture, history, religion, literature, and politics of the country, He reviews the remarkable transformation of ethics and morality in the People's Republic of China and engages in a global discourse about the major ethical issues of our time. The book aims to reconstruct Chinese social ethics in an innovative philosophical framework, reflecting China's search for new virtues.
Contents
1. Reconstructing China's Social Ethics
2. Historical and Sociological Origins of Chinese Cultural Norms
3. The Transformation of Ethics and Morality in the PRC
4. China's Ongoing Moral Decay?
5. Ethical Discourse in Reform Era China
6. Chinese Ethical Dialogue with the West and the World
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-2573-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-2572-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
2
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Table of Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
"New Principles" Toward a New Framework of Chinese Social Ethics No access
A Chinese Theory of Conscience: The Contemporary Transformation of Traditional Morality No access
The Selection Society No access
1905: The End of Traditional Chinese Society No access
Three Sources of Chinese Tradition and the Impetus for Cultural Renaissance No access
The Red Guard Generation: Manipulated Rebellion and Youth Violence No access
From Mobilized Morality to Demobilized Morality: Social and Ethical Changes in Post-Mao China No access
Moral Crisis in Chinese Society No access
Chinese People: Why Are You So Angry? No access
"Absurd Bans" and the Need for Minimum Moral Standards No access
Why Should We Repeatedly Stress the Principle of Life? No access
On Possible Ways to Contain the Corruption of Power No access
Challenging the Death Penalty No access
Ecological Ethics: Spiritual Resources and Philosophical Foundations No access
The Possibilities and Limits of Moral Philosophy No access
The Intellectual Legacy of John Rawls No access
The Applicability of the Principle of Life to International Politics No access
What Are the Differences? And What Consensus? No access
