INTRODUCTION Remaking the Moral Person in a New China

• Published in: Deep China p. 1
• Main Authors: Yan, Yunxiang, Zhang, Everett, Lee, Sing, Jun, Jing, Kleinman, Arthur
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States University of California Press 27.08.2011
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Asian studies; Axiology; Behavioral sciences; Chinese culture; Cities; Cultural anthropology; Cultural dynamics; Cultural revolutions; Cultural studies; Divorce; East Asian studies; Ethics; Ethnography; Ethnology; Human behavior; Human geography; Human societies; Killing; Marriage; Metropolitan areas; Morality; Normative ethics; Personality; Personality psychology; Philosophy; Political activism; Political geography; Political ideologies; Political philosophy; Political processes; Political protests; Political science; Politics; Psychology; Self; Sinology; Social behavior; Social institutions; Social interaction; Social sciences; Socialism; Sociology; Suicide; Violence
• ISBN: 9780520269446; 0520269446

In the early years of the new millennium, the image of China is multiplex, consisting variously of a powerful nation with a robust economy; a communist society that has become more capitalist than the West; a strategic competitor to the United States; an unfathomably huge population approaching 1.4 billion people; and a culture that remains distinctive in spite of globalization. Most people in the West are now familiar with the surface facts: China is the second-largest economy in the world and set to become the largest in the lifetime of young adults. China is the world’s manufacturing center. Goods of