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