Rethinking China's Rise

Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique, is a translation of eight recent essays by Xu Jilin, professor of history at East China Normal University in Shanghai, and an important public intellectual. The essays have been translated and edited by David Ownby, and the volume was published by Cambridge University Press in July of 2018. Click here to order. To see reviews of the volume, click here, here, and here.

The volume includes:

David Ownby, "Editor and Translator's Introduction"

Xu Jilin, "What Kind of Civilization? China at a Crossroads"

Xu Jilin, "The Specter of Leviathan: A Critique of Chinese Statism since 2000"

Xu Jilin, "Universal Civilization, or Chinese Values? A Critique of Historicist Thought since 2000"

Xu Jilin, "After the 'Great Disembedding': Family-State, Tianxia, and Self"

Xu Jilin, "What Body for Confucianism's Lonely Soul"

Xu Jilin, "The New Tianxia: Rebuilding China's Internal and External Order"

Xu Jilin, "Two Kinds of Enlightenment: Civilizational Consciousness or Cultural Consciousness

Xu Jilin, "Li Shenzhi: The Last Scholar-Official, the Last Hero"