Rebuilding China’s Knowledge Production System - Yongnian Zheng

This book is the culmination of Prof. Zheng Yongnian’s work on the development of China’s original knowledge framework. Since China’s reform and opening up, the country has opened its doors wide and there have been increased exchanges between China and foreign countries. But the gap between China and the world in terms of the views on world politics have become increasingly explicit. China lacks a knowledge system capable of explaining itself to the outside world. For a long time, Chinese intellectuals have borrowed concepts and theories from ‘others’ to explain themselves,and the result not only failed to explain themselves, but, rather, misinterpreted themselves. This requires intellectuals, that is, knowledge producers, to think about how the Western knowledge system was produced and how we can build a Chinese knowledge system. This intervention from one of China's most notable public intellectuals will interest China scholars, scholars of cultural studies and journalists.