Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person

A very interesting look at the shifts and changes in where morals come from post-Mao, post-cultural revolution in a society which pushed out religion to replace it with a religion of the "state" (cult of personality) - only to have that displaced with what exactly?Nature abhors a vacuum - and apparently so do societies. Here you have a nice exploration of the cobbled together moral landscape - with traditions both old and new being synthesized into a (not necessarily cohesive) whole. The authors cover a lot of different aspects of the inner conflicts people must have experienced, and are experiencing even now. This won't necessarily help you understand individuals per se, but it should give you some appreciation for what many people may have gone through as a whole.

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