Liberalism and Chinese Economic Development brings international contributors together in order to consider economic, political, social and legislative aspects of China's modernization. This volume explores how liberalism is received and perceived, and whether it is adapted or adopted upon the basis of centuries of Chinese civilization and decades of capitalism. This book examines both historical and contemporary dimensions surrounding the question of Chinese liberalism, exploring China's economic development in a comparative context.

1. General Introduction. In Search of the meaning of Liberalism in a China confronting crisis. Gilles Campagnolo Part I. History of Thought: Contributions to the reception and adoption/adaption of Western thought 2. The Reception Of Kant in China. Bo Xu 3. Yan Fu and Kaiping Mines: the Meaning of Economic Liberalism in Early Modern China. Qunyi Liu 4. Liberal Economic Thought in Republican China. Olga Borokh 5. Modernization Theory, Chinese Modernization, and Social Ethics Jean-Sébastien Gharbi Part II. Liberalization and individualization 6. The Essence of Individuality in Kitaro Nishida's works: A Contribution from Eastern Asia to a Transcultural Understanding of the Meaning of Individualism Andrea Altobrando 7. Reject of Narcissism and Social Essentialism through the Anthropology of Masao Maruyama. Masataka Muramatsu 8. Dual Individualization in East Asia: Individualization in the Society and in the Family. Sang-Jin Han and Young-Hee Shim 9. Intensive Secularization of Engaged Buddhism to Heal Isolated People in East Asia: Active Listening by Monks in liberalized Societies of Eastern Asia. Yoshihide Sakurai Part III. Liberalism, universalims and pluralism 10. Self-Determination: What Liberalism is it? Zhao Lizhi 11. Slaughter's Liberal Theory of International Law: Comments from a Chinese Perspective. Guimei Bai 12. Liberalization of Russian foreign economic relations in North-Eastern Asia: a viewpoint on Chinese and Japanese business Igor Botoev and Olga Tugulova 13. Talking Politics in China: Media and 'Social Management' in a China facing fast-pace Modernization. Santiago Pinault