Chapter 1 Tongbian A Chinese Strand of Thought Chapter 2 Marxism in China: Initial Encounters Chapter 3 Tongbian in Preliminary Reading of "Dialectics" Chapter 4 Qu Qiubai's Reading of Dialectical Materialism Chapter 5 Popularizing Dialectical Materialism Chapter 6 Ai Siqi: Sinizing Dialectical Materialism Chapter 7 Mao Zedong: The Mature Formulation of Dialectical Materialism Chapter 8 Epilogue: Marxian Dialectics after Mao
Chenshan Tian is special programs coordinator, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawaii.
This book will make a significant contribution into the field of
Chinese philosophy and Chinese intellectual history....I would
require my undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy to
read it....The last chapter is very unique and gives a timely
warning about Chinese style of liberalism.
*Robin R. Wang, Loyola Marymount University*
Chenshan Tian's brilliant study forces us to rethink conventional
accounts of the reception of Marxism in East Asia, particularly in
China. Drawing on untranslated Chinese primary sources, Tian
convincingly argues that the integration of major Marxist concepts
occurred within the larger intellectual and cultural framework of
Chinese tongbian philosophy. This book is a major contribution to
the growing discipline of comparative political theory.
*Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Global Politics, University of
Hawai'i-Manoa*
By drawing in detail on a long and powerful tradition in Chinese
philosophy, this book shows that the conventional understandings of
Chinese Marxism demand careful reconsideration. It turns out,
indeed, that getting this straight casts new light on current
debates. An important book.
*Peter T. Manicas, director, Interdisciplinary Studies Program,
University of Hawai'i at Manoa*
Chenshan Tian's book is an important contribution to the study of
Chinese dialectical materialism. His argument that Marxist
dialectics was received in China through the lens of tongbian or
'continuity through change' is well-sustained. Concise, insightful,
and excellent in scholarship.
*Chenyang Li, professor and Department Chair, Philosophy, Central
Washington University*
This is a most welcome monograph drawing upon both philosophy and
political science to make explicit what has only been hinted at by
our best interpreters of modern China. In this rigorously reasoned
analysis, Tian Chenshan crafts a subtle yet compelling argument
that the dialectical sensibilities of Chinese Marxism are
distinctively Chinese, informed as this 'modern' Marxist way of
thinking is by persistent cosmological assumptions recovered from
the canons of Chinese philosophy, especially the biantong dialectic
endorsed by the Book of Changes (Yijing).
*Roger T. Ames, University of Hawai'i*
An important contribution to the study of Chinese dialectical
materialism. . . . Tian Chenshan's book on this much-neglected
topic is indispensable for those who want to understand the
intellectual history of China.
*Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute*
Chenshan Tian's book is a rare combination of excellent comparative
philosophy and critical depth. It is analytically keen and
extraordinarily informative about the geography and heritages of
political philosophy.
*Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i, Manoa*
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