Paradigm Shifts in Chinese Studies

✍ Scribed by Shiping Hua (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a study of the change and continuity in paradigms in China studies, both inside and outside of China. In the last few years, the United States and China appeared to be moving in the direction of “de-coupling,” indicating that the engagement policy with China in the last four decade is ending. The “modernization theory” that is the theoretical foundation of the engagement policy has proved to be insufficient.

This situation calls for a reexamination of the field of China studies. Historically, scholarly paradigms shifts often went hand in hand with drastic social change. As we have entered an era of great uncertainty, it is constructive to reflect on the paradigms in China studies in the past and explore the possibility of new paradigms in the future. How are the shifts of major theories, methods and paradigms in China studies in the west related to social change? How did some of China’s paradigms impact on the country’s socialchange and developments?

This book will appeal to a wide readership, including scholars and graduate students, upper division undergraduate students of China studies, Asian studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: Paradigmatic Trends in China Studies
Area Studies and the Paradigms
China Studies and the Paradigms
Disciplines and the Paradigms
A Grand Paradigm?
References
2 Paradigms of Anthropology in China
Introduction
The Development of Chinese Anthropology
The Experience of Chinese Anthropology Today
The Intellectual Content of Anthropology, as Linked to Language and Information
Teaching Anthropology
Anthropology in Taiwan and Hong Kong
A New Chinese Anthropological Paradigm?
References
3 Shifts of Journalism and Communication Education in China and the Political and Ideological Contributing Factors
Introduction
The Introduction of Communication Studies into China Changed the Situation of “Journalism Without Theory”
The Normalized Development of Journalism and Communication Disciplines
The Re-politicization and Technical Inclination of Journalism and Communication Education
Conclusion
References
4 The Changing Landscape of Economic Studies on China: A Scopus-Based Literature Review
Introduction
The Expansion and Changes in Economic Studies on China
Research Cooperation Across Geographic Regions and Across Disciplines
Concluding Discussion
References
5 The Shift of Paradigms in Writing Chinese History
Traditional History Writing
New and Evolutionary Historiography
Marxist Material Historiography
Modern and Freer Historiography
Conclusion
References
6 Paradigm Shift in Chinese Legal Studies
Introduction
Legal Theory/Jurisprudence
Driving Away from Vyshinsky
From “Fundamental Theory of Law” to “Jurisprudence”
Is the Chinese Jurisprudence at a Loss?
Interim Summary
Public Law
Brief Review of the Trajectory of Constitutional Law Scholarship Since the Reform Era
Debate Between Normative Constitutionalists and Political Constitutionalists and Its Methodological Implications
Private Law
Early Debate on Public and Private Divide
Constitutionality of Property Law
Inclusion of a Separate Part on Personality Rights in the New Civil Code
Conclusions
References
7 Three Paradigms for Studying Chinese Philosophy
Introduction
The Exclusionist Paradigm for Approaching Studies of Chinese Philosophy
The Comparative Paradigm for Studying Chinese Philosophy
The Constructionist Paradigm
Conclusion
References
8 One County, Many Paradigms: Diversity in China Political Studies
Introduction
Chinese China Scholars from the Inside Out
Generations and Various “Western” China Scholars: North America and Europe
Non-Chinese, Non-North America and Non-European China Scholars
Conclusion
References
9 Advancing Psychology of China: A Call for Paradigm Shift
Paradigm and Paradigm Shift
Dominant Paradigms of Modern Psychology
Increasing Calls for Paradigm Shift in the West
Psychologies in China
Traditional Chinese Psychology (TCP)
Modern Psychology in China
Paradigm Shift: Advancing Psychology of China
From Exclusive Western Empiricism to Methodological Holism/Integration
Methodological Holism
Culture-Centered Hermeneutic Approach
From Exclusive Individualism to Epistemological Pluralism
From Western Medical Model to Eastern Philosophical/Cultural Models in Psychotherapy
An Ending Note
References
10 Hiding in Plain Sight: Paradigms Shifts in the Study of the ‘Religious Question’ in China
Introduction
The Study of Chinese Religions Before 1949
The Official Voice
The Marxist Paradigm in the Academic Study of Religion in China
Two Paradigms in the Study of Chinese Religions Outside China
Conclusion
Sources
11 Situated Knowledge and Situated Action: The Rise of Chinese Sociology Since 1978
The History of Sociology in China
The Reincarnation of Sociology
The Institutionalization of Sociology with Chinese Characteristics
Under-Developed Sub-fields of Sociology in Chinese
Conclusion
References
12 Deconstructing Chinese Art Music’s Paradigms and Paradigm Shift
Art Music as a New Paradigm
Colonialism, Chinese Music, and Scholarship
State Ideology and Socialist Music
The Postcolonial Turn and English-Language Academia
Chinese Students on a Journey to the West
Changes in Chinese Academia
A New Chinese Music
Conclusion
References
Index