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2. The China Dream, History, Religion and Modernization

Authors : Shaoying Zhang, Derek McGhee

Published in: China’s Ethical Revolution and Regaining Legitimacy

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter will introduce the background of President Xi’s initiatives and the discourse of the China Dream. We examine various academic attempts to explain the discourse of the China Dream as one of the causes of the revival of traditional culture in the era of globalization. We argue that the discourse on the revival of culture is in fact a resistant discourse to modernization, while the discourse on the “China Model” that uses the “Washington Consensus” as its reference point is based on the consciousness of colonial modernity.

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Metadata
Title
The China Dream, History, Religion and Modernization
Authors
Shaoying Zhang
Derek McGhee
Copyright Year
2017
Book
China’s Ethical Revolution and Regaining Legitimacy

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-51495-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-51496-3

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51496-3_2