Lexington Books
Pages: 248
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-0922-9 • Hardback • March 2005 • $121.00 • (£93.00)
Subjects: History / General,
History / Asia / General,
History / Asia / China,
History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union,
History / Revolutionary,
History / Modern / General,
History / Modern / 20th Century,
History / Civilization,
Philosophy / General,
Philosophy / Eastern,
Philosophy / Epistemology,
Philosophy / Methodology,
Philosophy / Political,
Philosophy / Taoist,
Philosophy / Movements / General,
Political Science / General,
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post- Communism & Socialism,
Political Science / History & Theory,
Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties,
Political Science / Political Process / General,
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism,
Social Science / Research
Chenshan Tian is special programs coordinator, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawaii.
Chapter 1 Tongbian A Chinese Strand of Thought
Chapter 2 Marxism in China: Initial Encounters
Chapter 3 Tongbian in Preliminary Reading of "Dialectics"
Chapter 4 Qu Qiubai's Reading of Dialectical Materialism
Chapter 5 Popularizing Dialectical Materialism
Chapter 6 Ai Siqi: Sinizing Dialectical Materialism
Chapter 7 Mao Zedong: The Mature Formulation of Dialectical Materialism
Chapter 8 Epilogue: Marxian Dialectics after Mao
This book will make a significant contribution into the field of Chinese philosophy and Chinese intellectual history....I would require my undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy to read it....The last chapter is very unique and gives a timely warning about Chinese style of liberalism.
— Robin R. Wang, Loyola Marymount University
Chenshan Tian's brilliant study forces us to rethink conventional accounts of the reception of Marxism in East Asia, particularly in China. Drawing on untranslated Chinese primary sources, Tian convincingly argues that the integration of major Marxist concepts occurred within the larger intellectual and cultural framework of Chinese tongbian philosophy. This book is a major contribution to the growing discipline of comparative political theory.
— Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Global Politics, University of Hawai'i-Manoa
By drawing in detail on a long and powerful tradition in Chinese philosophy, this book shows that the conventional understandings of Chinese Marxism demand careful reconsideration. It turns out, indeed, that getting this straight casts new light on current debates. An important book.
— Peter T. Manicas, director, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Chenshan Tian's book is an important contribution to the study of Chinese dialectical materialism. His argument that Marxist dialectics was received in China through the lens of tongbian or 'continuity through change' is well-sustained. Concise, insightful, and excellent in scholarship.
— Chenyang Li, professor and Department Chair, Philosophy, Central Washington University
This is a most welcome monograph drawing upon both philosophy and political science to make explicit what has only been hinted at by our best interpreters of modern China. In this rigorously reasoned analysis, Tian Chenshan crafts a subtle yet compelling argument that the dialectical sensibilities of Chinese Marxism are distinctively Chinese, informed as this 'modern' Marxist way of thinking is by persistent cosmological assumptions recovered from the canons of Chinese philosophy, especially the biantong dialectic endorsed by the Book of Changes (Yijing).
— Roger T. Ames, University of Hawai'i
An important contribution to the study of Chinese dialectical materialism. . . . Tian Chenshan's book on this much-neglected topic is indispensable for those who want to understand the intellectual history of China.
— Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute
Chenshan Tian's book is a rare combination of excellent comparative philosophy and critical depth. It is analytically keen and extraordinarily informative about the geography and heritages of political philosophy.
— Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i, Manoa