What Does China Think?

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Mark Leonard. What Does China Think?

WHAT DOES CHINA THINK?

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION. The Liberation of Thought

The accidental sinologist

China’s Ground Zero

Under the shadow of globalization

Liberation

The intellectual as king

Yellow River Capitalism

The dictatorship of the economists

The village of zebras

Pearl River Capitalism: from permanentrevolution to permanent innovation

The two stories of Tiananmen

The rise of China’s ‘New Left’

Yellow River Capitalism

The weakest state in the world

Protecting public property

Green Cat Development

The turn to the Left

The New Machiavelli and theHarmonious Society

Democracy in the Clouds

Incremental democracy

Inner party democracy

Democracy = chaos

Meritocracy vs. majority rule

Turning Western democracy on its head

The Chongqing experiment in participation

Rule of law or rule by man?

Whose rule of law?

Science and democracy

Is deliberative dictatorshipa real alternative?

Comprehensive National Power

Comprehensive National Power

Nourishing obscurity

The fall of the ‘Peaceful Rise’

Soft power

Multilateral power projection

The asymmetric superpower

Table OneThe many facets of unrestricted warfare

Where is China heading?

CONCLUSION. China’s Walled World

The world according to China

The tributaries of the Yellow River

Deliberative dictatorship

Comprehensive National Power

The China Model

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

NOTES

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

About the Author

Also by Mark Leonard

Copyright

About the Publisher

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MARK LEONARD

Gan Yang, ‘The Grand Three Traditions in the New Era: The Integration of the Three Traditions and the Re-emergence of the Chinese Civilization’

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Today we can see in China three traditions. One is the tradition forged during the twenty-eight years of the reform era … of ‘the market at the centre’ including a lot of concepts like freedom and rights. Another tradition was formed in the Mao Zedong era. Its main characteristics are striving for equality and justice. The last tradition was formed during the thousands of years of Chinese civilization, traditionally referred to as Confucian culture. In the past we have often behaved as if these three traditions were in conflict with each other. But they are not.

This is not the first time that Chinese have sought to combine foreign know-how with national identity. Confucian reformers in the nineteenth century strove to bolster the imperial system by using foreign ‘functional knowledge’ (yong) to preserve Chinese ‘essence’ (ti). And Deng Xiaoping labelled his market reforms ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’. But where earlier generations started from a position of debilitating weakness, today’s reformers are coming to terms with China’s growing strength. And, what is more, this attempt is being bolstered by an intellectual debate raging beyond the halls of power.

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