List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Scholarship, National Interest and Conceptual Paradigm
2. China, What China?
3. Chinese? Who are the Chinese?
4. Intellectual Poverty of the Chinese Neo-Enlightenment
5. The Coordinated Efforts in Constructing China
6. Why is the Cultural Revolution Cultural?
7. Why is the Cultural Revolution Revolutionary? The Legacies
8. Clashing Views of the Great Leap Forward
9. National Interest and Transnational Interest: The Political and
Intellectual Elite in the West
10. Geopolitics and National Interest I: China’s Foreign Policy and
Domestic Politics
11. Geopolitics and National Interest II: The South China Sea
Disputes
Bibliography
Index
Mobo Gao is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Adelaide and the author of Constructing China (Pluto, 2018), The Battle for China's Past (Pluto, 2008).
'Mobo Gao is one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers on
contemporary Chinese issues today. This splendid book on
fundamental questions about what China is maintains his ability to
target key questions which might often be asked, but seldom treated
in such elegantly provocative fashion'
*Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director, Lau China
Institute*
'Mobo Gao intervenes in the increasingly tense ideological exchange
that has accompanied China's challenge to the global hegemony of
the West. Intimately familiar with the intellectual terrain in both
worlds, Gao offers unique insights, at once indignant and
introspective'
*Joel Andreas, John Hopkins University, author of Rise of the Red
Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New
Class*
'A bold, revisionist account citing much historical evidence and
presenting interpretations that challenge mainstream views of China
...Gao makes a provocative case that will spark vigourous debate
about the country and its leaders' motives'
*Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor Emerita, University of California,
Irvine*
'This book engages a fundamental question in politics and history
concerning discursive power. It is forcefully argued and highly
stimulating. The compelling case Mobo Gao makes deserves broad
attention for its significance and urgency in debating the
hegemonic ascendance of revisionist historiography'
*Lin Chun, author of China and Global Capitalism: Reflections on
Marxism, History and Contemporary Politics (2013)*
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