Mao Zedong, Sinization of Marxism, and Traditional Chinese Thought Culture

The informed perspective presented here may rouse a sensitivity to the differences in reading Marxist philosophy from the perspective of the Inseparability of One and Many worldview and philosophy (a doctrine of internal, constitutive, relations––“intimacy”) on the part of Chinese intellectuals, pa...

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Main Author: Chenshan TIAN
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Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2019-01-01
Series:Asian Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/7896
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description The informed perspective presented here may rouse a sensitivity to the differences in reading Marxist philosophy from the perspective of the Inseparability of One and Many worldview and philosophy (a doctrine of internal, constitutive, relations––“intimacy”) on the part of Chinese intellectuals, particularly Mao Zedong, a great campaigner for philosophic and discursive Sinicization of Marxism. Marxism has provided an opportunity for a philosophical conversation with Chinese tradition, and this conversation was not launched by a government or official campaign, but instead by the efforts made on the part of countless grassroots intellectuals. It is argued that the reason for this was perhaps due to the fact that certain of Marx’s cosmological assumptions, in contrast to those of the main Western categories, are more capable of being understood and Sinicized in terms of particular philosophical currents in the Chinese tradition. This was particularly so for the two decades of the 1950s and 1960s, and until the end of the 1970s when Deng Xiaoping came to power and openly declared the start of his “Economic Reform” with the slogan “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.”
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spelling doaj.art-9709be5d3bfa45c1b2fba86f95cea31c2023-01-18T09:01:24ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Asian Studies2232-51312350-42262019-01-017110.4312/as.2019.7.1.13-37Mao Zedong, Sinization of Marxism, and Traditional Chinese Thought CultureChenshan TIAN The informed perspective presented here may rouse a sensitivity to the differences in reading Marxist philosophy from the perspective of the Inseparability of One and Many worldview and philosophy (a doctrine of internal, constitutive, relations––“intimacy”) on the part of Chinese intellectuals, particularly Mao Zedong, a great campaigner for philosophic and discursive Sinicization of Marxism. Marxism has provided an opportunity for a philosophical conversation with Chinese tradition, and this conversation was not launched by a government or official campaign, but instead by the efforts made on the part of countless grassroots intellectuals. It is argued that the reason for this was perhaps due to the fact that certain of Marx’s cosmological assumptions, in contrast to those of the main Western categories, are more capable of being understood and Sinicized in terms of particular philosophical currents in the Chinese tradition. This was particularly so for the two decades of the 1950s and 1960s, and until the end of the 1970s when Deng Xiaoping came to power and openly declared the start of his “Economic Reform” with the slogan “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.” https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/7896Sinicizationinseparability of One and ManyvocabularyAi Siqibianzhengfa (dialectics)
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title Mao Zedong, Sinization of Marxism, and Traditional Chinese Thought Culture
title_full Mao Zedong, Sinization of Marxism, and Traditional Chinese Thought Culture
title_fullStr Mao Zedong, Sinization of Marxism, and Traditional Chinese Thought Culture
title_full_unstemmed Mao Zedong, Sinization of Marxism, and Traditional Chinese Thought Culture
title_short Mao Zedong, Sinization of Marxism, and Traditional Chinese Thought Culture
title_sort mao zedong sinization of marxism and traditional chinese thought culture
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inseparability of One and Many
vocabulary
Ai Siqi
bianzhengfa (dialectics)
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