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

By Guanjun Wu

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- -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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9814417912
• ISBN13: 9789814417914
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"