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Examines the introduction of Marxist philosophy to China from the early 1920s to the mid 1940s, through an examination of the philosophical activities and writings of four Chinese Marxist philosophers central to this process - Qu Qiubai, Ai Siqi, Li Da and Mao Zedong

China's intellectuals have responded to the cultural impact of globalisation in various ways. Some have welcomed it, regarding it as the harbinger of cultural changes that will modernise China and lead to democratic reform. Many more have expressed hostility and alarm, fearing increased individualism and consumerism. China's leaders have nevertheless determined to further expose the country to global forces, confident that the Chinese state is sufficiently robust to counter threats to its sovereignty in the cultural realm. However, the paradoxical tendencies of globalisation — cultural homogenisation and cultural fragmentation — will constitute a significant challenge to the leadership in defining and guarding what it understands 'Chinese' culture to be.

Since the mid-1990s theorists of the Chinese Communist Party been interested in globalisation. Having abandoned class struggle as the catalyst of for the achievement of socialism has not led to a parallel abandonement of a Marxist teleology that perceives communism as the final goal of historical development. (DÜI-NIAS-Han)

China's intellectuals have responded to the cultural impact of globalisation in various ways. Some have welcomed it, regarding it as the harbinger of cultural changes that will modernise China and lead to democratic reform. Many more have expressed hostility and alarm, fearing increased individualism and consumerism. China's leaders have nevertheless determined to further expose the country to global forces, confident that the Chinese state is sufficiently robust to counter threats to its sovereignty in the cultural realm. However, the paradoxical tendencies of globalisation - cultural homogenisation and cultural fragmentation - will constitute a significant challenge to the leadership in defining and guarding what it understands 'Chinese' culture to be. (CIJ/GIGA)