What can we do about China? This question, couched in pessimism, is
often raised in the West but it is nothing new to the Chinese, who
have long worried about themselves. In the last two decades since
the "opening" of China, Chinese intellectuals have been carrying on
in their own ancient tradition of "patriotic worrying."
As an intellectual mandate, "worrying about China" carries with
it the moral obligation of identifying and solving perceived
"Chinese problems"--social, political, cultural, historical, or
economic--in order to achieve national perfection. In "Worrying
about China," Gloria Davies pursues this inquiry through a wide
range of contemporary topics, including the changing fortunes of
radicalism, the peculiarities of Chinese postmodernism, shifts
within official discourse, attempts to revive Confucianism for
present-day China, and the historically problematic engagement of
Chinese intellectuals with Western ideas.
Davies explores the way perfectionism permeates and ultimately
propels Chinese intellectual talk to the point that the drive for
perfection has created a moralism that condemns those who do not
contribute to improving China. Inside the heart of the New China
persists ancient moralistic attitudes that remain decidedly
nonmodern. And inside the postmodernism of thousands of Chinese
scholars and intellectuals dwells a decidedly anti-postmodern quest
for absolute certainty.
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