ABSTRACT

Liberalism and Chinese Economic Development brings international contributors together in order to consider economic, political, social and legislative aspects of China’s modernization. This volume explores how liberalism is received and perceived, and whether it is adapted or adopted upon the basis of centuries of Chinese civilization and decades of capitalism.

China’s role in the global economy is an undeniable force. This book examines both historical and contemporary dimensions surrounding the question of Chinese liberalism, exploring China’s economic development in a comparative context. In particular, this text explores differences with the Western model, and more specifically, the relationship between Chinese economic thought and European traditions. This text assesses China’s economic development at both a macro and a micro level, and also considers its relationship with its neighbours.

Campagnolo answers whether free-trade and capitalistic economic developments are long sustainable without other types of liberal developments? Or is the idea that political liberties and economic freedom are just Western ideologies? This is a uniquely wide ranging book, suitable for scholars of the Chinese economy, the history of economic thought, economic philosophy and international political economy.

chapter 1|22 pages

Introduction

In search of the meaning of liberalism in a China confronting crisis

part 1|86 pages

History of thought

chapter 1|24 pages

The reception of Kant in China

chapter 1|14 pages

Yan Fu and Kaiping Mines

The meaning of economic liberalism in early modern China

part 1|78 pages

Liberalization and individualization

chapter 1|20 pages

The essence of individuality in Kitarō Nishida's works

A contribution from Eastern Asia to a transcultural understanding of the meaning of individualism

chapter 1|20 pages

Dual individualization in East Asia

Individualization in the society and in the family

chapter 1|20 pages

Intensive secularization of engaged Buddhism to heal isolated people in East Asia

Active listening by monks in liberalized societies of Eastern Asia

part 1|90 pages

Liberalism, universalism and pluralism

chapter 1|17 pages

Self-determination

What liberalism is it?

chapter 1|30 pages

Slaughter's liberal theory of international law

Comments from a Chinese perspective

chapter 1|19 pages

Liberalization of Russian foreign economic relations in North-Eastern Asia

A viewpoint on Chinese and Japanese business

chapter 1|22 pages

Talking politics in China

Media and “social management” in a China facing fast-pace modernization