Reinventing the Methodology of Studying Contemporary China : Re-testing the One-dot Theory

• Main Author: YU, Peter Kien-hong. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology > Asia.; China > History.; Asia > Politics and government.; Sociology > Research.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789811044304
• Physical Description: XIII, 170 p. 17 illus. online resource.

This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary China's past, present and future. It argues that since October 1949, the field of contemporary China studies has been dominated by modified and abandon...