The Development of the Ideology of Enlightenment in China (From the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century)

Abstract

[In the previous selection in this issue, as well as in the last number of Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, we have sought to introduce our readers to the Soviet perspective on contemporary Chinese society. These selections portray the Soviet sinologists' views of the "Maoist" model of social change and the role that ideology is alleged to have played in the shaping of contemporary Chinese social structure.