On Contemporary Chinese Ideology
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2025
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Gao, M.
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Gao, M.
O'Connor, J.
Xie, B.
Butcher, J.
O'Connor, J.
Xie, B.
Butcher, J.
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The Great Decoupling: Derisking or Great Dis/Order?, 2025 / Gao, M., O'Connor, J., Xie, B., Butcher, J. (ed./s), Ch.9, pp.161-180
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Mobo Gao
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This chapter aims to demonstrate that China is not an ideologically aggressive nation that threatens the West. My basic argument is that Chinese leaders post-Mao have been pragmatic in their ideological orientation and sought values and knowledge from three following traditions: traditional Chinese history and culture based on Confucianism, the collective experience of the 1949 Chinese Revolution, and the liberal-capitalist market economy of the Western tradition. My chapter discusses how the post-Mao Chinese leadership, under Xi and his predecessors, has moved among and between these three ideological traditions to guide China’s development. By establishing a connection between these three traditions and China’s development policies, this chapter aims to demonstrate that the Chinese development model, however successful, is NOT based on some monolithic communist ideology. Thus, any argument to justify the West’s decoupling from China based on an autocratic ideology set against democracy or freedom is wrong-headed.
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© 2025 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.