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A 5 page research paper that looks at consumerism in contemporary China. This examination of contemporary Chinese culture draws on the novel by Qiu Xiaolong (2001), Death of a Red Heroine. However, in order to determine if there are vestiges of imperial/Confucian China in contemporary China, it is first looks at the principle characteristics of that culture and then examine consumerism in China more closely. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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marketplace than has been present traditionally under communist rule. This brings up the question of how much has China changed? Did Mao and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s completely
eradicate all vestiges of traditional, Confucian Chinese culture as it was under the imperial court, or are there lingering aspects of this in modern China? To answer such questions, it
is often more enlightening to turn to fiction for insight into cultural processes. Therefore, the following examination of contemporary Chinese culture draws on the novel by Qiu Xiaolong (2001), Death
of a Red Heroine. However, in order to determine if there are vestiges of imperial/Confucian China in contemporary China, it is first necessary to look at, at least briefly, the
principle characteristics of that culture. A major principle of Chinese Confucianism was the idea that human beings are perfectible. In the "era of the Warring States," Chinese philosophers of
the major schools turned against principles of hereditary privilege, which involved the rulers of many family-states, and emphasized the natural equality of men at birth (Fairbank and Goldman, 1998, p.
52). The perspective of Confucianism was that men are by nature good and have an innate moral sense, but they need guidance (Fairbank and Goldman, 1998, p. 52). In China,
this concept was combined with the idea that those with superior status would educate those who were lower in status through example. The Confucian code emphasized the notion that the
Confucian gentlemen, the "superior man," was guided by li which can be defined as "proper behavior according to status" (Fairbank and Goldman, 1998, p. 52). The conduct of those in
the lower classes was to be regulated by rewards and punishments rather then by moral principles, but those of the upper classes felt that to conduct oneself according to the
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