China and the West

Yang Yao is a Professor and Dean at Peking University's National School of Development in China.David Ownby is a Chinese scholar at Montreal University's Department of History and Center for East Asian Studies.

• Part I. Introduction.- 1. Forward.- 2. Yao Yang: Public Intellectual, Liberal Economist, Confucian Pragmatist.- 3. Is a New Cold War Coming? - Part II. My family, my village and China’s modernization.- 4. The vanishing town.- 5. Three days back in the village.- 6. Before my grandfather’s portrait.- 7. My view of revolutionary history.- 8. China’s path of modernization and its implications for the rest of the world.- Part III. New wine in an old bottle: a new interpretation of Confucianism.- 9. The Confucian state: An ideal type of governance for China? .- 10. Go beyond liberal democracy: insights from Confucianism.- 11. Confucianism and liberalism: An ideal type of governance for China? .- 12. Confucianism and common prosperity.- 13. Restoring the true face of politics in Chinese history:  Qian Mu and his book Successes and Failures of Chinese Politics Throughout the Ages.- Part IV. Turning back to China: Understanding the CCP.- 14. The End of Ideology? .- 15. The Dilemma of China’s democratization.- 16. Understanding the Chinese Communist Party System.- 17. Sinification of Marxism: The CCP’s most urgent ideological challenge.