Historical Materialism and Contemporary China (Hindi Edition) [Hindi]

By Xianda Chen

How can a civilization with thousands of years of continuous tradition reconcile its inherited culture with the Marxism that has guided its modern transformation? In these chapters, Chen Xianda takes up the question from within the tradition of historical materialism, and refuses the easy answers on both sides.

Chen is critical of those who would restore Confucian orthodoxy and "rule the country through the classics," and equally critical of those who treat traditional culture as a dead weight to be discarded. Drawing on Feng Youlan's reading of an ancient line from the Book of Songs--"the state of Zhou is ancient, but its mandate is new"--he argues that Marxism took root in China only by inheriting the best of the Chinese cultural inheritance, and that Chinese tradition has in turn been renewed through its encounter with historical materialism. The relationship is dialectical, and it can only be properly understood, he insists, from the standpoint of the transformation of social formations themselves.

The chapters that follow examine the long encounter between Marxism and Confucian thought, the meaning and foundations of cultural confidence in the new era, the role of cultural classics and exemplary figures in shaping a national spirit, the responsibilities of intellectuals, the difficult position of philosophy in an age dominated by the market, and the place of Marxism within an advanced socialist culture. The writing is lucid, theoretically grounded, and openly engaged with the political and intellectual stakes of the present.

This Hindi-language edition makes the work of one of contemporary China's most distinguished Marxist philosophers accessible to Hindi-speaking scholars and students for the first time. An essential acquisition for academic libraries supporting programs in Marxist philosophy, Chinese philosophy, contemporary Chinese intellectual history, comparative philosophy, South Asian Hindi-language collections, and political theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Hindi
• ISBN: 1487812639
• ISBN13: 9781487812638
• Release Date: March 2027
• Publisher: Royal Collins Publishing Company
• Length: 144 Pages