STUDIES ON CHINESE MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS

Studies on Chinese Modern History and Politics collects important research findings of China's social sciences studies conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including the studies of Chen Xulu (a famous Chinese historian), the institutional advantage and governance efficiency in China, latest research on western political science, etc.This book is the seventh volume of the WSPC-ECNU Series on China. This Series showcases the significant contributions to scholarship in social sciences and humanities studies about China. It is jointly launched by World Scientific Publishing, the most reputable English academic publisher in Asia, and ECNU, a top University in China with a long history of exchanges with the international academic community.Contents:

• About the Editors
• List of Contributors
• Debord contra Lacan: Two Critical Theorizations of Image in 20th-Century French Thought (Wu Guanjun)
• Can the Oriental Know Justice? Can the Subaltern Tell Stories? (Josef Gregory Mahoney)
• Liberty and Its Abuse: Isaiah Berlin's Thesis on Liberty Revisited (Liu Qing)
• Institutional Advantage and Governance Efficiency: On the Essential Features of China's State Governance System in the New Era (Qi Weiping)
• 'Reform Apocamnosis' and Its Countermeasures from the Perspective of Social Differentiation (Hao Yuqing)
• Debates on Public History in Weimar Germany: The 'Controversy of Historical Belles-Lettres' in 1928 as a Case Study (Meng Zhongjie)
• Never Gone with the Wind: On Chen Xulu's Records of Free Thoughts (Wang Jiafan)
• The 'History' and 'Thinking' of the Change of Concept: Rereading The Metabolism of Modern Chinese Society (Gao Ruiquan)
• Theoretical Thinkings of Chen Xulu's Historiography (Yang Guoqiang)
• Master of Historiography of 'Questions Setting' and 'The Master Needs No Skills' (Xu Jilin)
• The Enlightenment of Chen Xulu's 'Metabolism' Thought on the Study of Asian History in Early Modern Times (Gu Weimin)
• Looking at the Beginning Triggers Strings of Floating Thoughts: Two Issues about Chen Xulu's Thought and Historical Research (Qu Jun)
• A Study of the Two Approaches to the Development of Positivist Historiography in Modern China (Hu Fengxiang)

Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in Chinese literature and art.Governance Efficiency;Asian History;China;Politics00