Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience
Autor: | Weiming Tu, Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman |
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EAN: | 9780203834398 |
eBook Format: | ePUB |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 20.12.2010 |
Untertitel: | The Quest for an Adequate Life |
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The last 30 years in China have witnessed tremendous changes, primarily as a result of the shift in focusby the state from class struggle to economic development. China soon eliminated the threat of famine and the rationing of food in the first decade of the reform era and increased its GDP per capita by 41% between 1978 and 2006. The average annual GDP growth rate during the same period is about three times the world average. Between 1981 and 2004 China had the largest poverty reduction in human history. Along with the fast economic development, there has been great changeto the ethos of Chinese society from sacrificing life for the revolutionary cause to valuing life itself. This change, which is perhaps among the most significant in the transformation of contemporary China, has enormous bearings on the question of what is an adequate life in China now.