Bøger af Thomas A. Metzger

A group of prominent China scholars held a conference at the Hoover Institution in December 1994 to discuss how US policy can best respond to recent changes in China. This volume presents, in ten authoritative chapters, the first comprehensive overview of this complex topic - along with sound reasoning to support its provocative conclusion.

Views modern Chinese thought as political philosophy; placing it in a sociological context, noting its causal relationship with paideia; examining its historical context by emphasizing the lines of continuity with the Confucian tradition; and exploring its comparative context by describing it as sharing an agenda with and diverging from the leading forms of Western liberalism.