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Science

In: China Counting

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  • Alex Mackinnon
  • Barnaby Powell

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If the pillars of wisdom in the West are law and religion, then China’s great moral and ethical touchstone, as noted earlier, is Confucianism, which guides and governs the norms of behavior in a person-centered world. The primacy of education in China — as a driving value in society — reinforces the old ranking of the social order: scholar/official, farmer, craftsman, trader/financier. However, China’s headlong rush towards modernization, economic reform and liberalization has brought about fundamental changes to this order as a pragmatic concession to the new priorities of its domestic and overseas trade and investment policies. With the widening of the bounds of knowledge and curiosity comes demand from its people for a new institutional framework to meet social needs for recourse and redress in an order of civil society in which people participate at the grass-roots of the decision-making process.

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  • Alex Mackinnon & Barnaby Powell, 2010. "Science," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: China Counting, chapter 0, pages 136-147, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-25103-8_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230251038_11
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