The Great Dragon Fantasy : A Lacanian Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Thought

China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-A-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China's prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus shows how the fervor for discovering "essential characteristics" of Chinese thought reveals a hidden psychological mechanism.

• | Author: Guanjun Wu
• | Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
• | Publication Date: Jul 24, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 406 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 9814417912
• | ISBN-13: 9789814417914