Professor CHOW Po Chung

This course examines the development of contemporary Chinese political thought from a historical and philosophical perspective. It introduces the social and cultural background that political thought arises, and evaluates the arguments of different schools.These schools include conservatism, neo-Confucianism, liberalism, Marxism, nationalism and different forms of utopianism. The focus will be on how they respond to the challenge of modernity with different proposals.