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608 China Review International: Vol. 19, No. 4, 2012 Jiang Qing. A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China’s Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future. Edited by Daniel A. Bell and Ruiping Fan. Translated by Edmund Ryden. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. 272 pp. 5 illustrations, table. Hardcover $39.50, isbn 978-0-691-15460-2. “In recent years, China’s political development began to go astray. Every current of political thought in China assumes that democracy is the way ahead for China. A glance over China’s current world of thought shows that the Chinese people have already lost their ability to think independently about political ques- tions. In other words, Chinese people are no longer able to use patterns of thought inherent in their cultur — e Chinese culture — to think about China’s current pol- itical development. This is a great tragedy for the world of Chinese thought.” This statement by China’s controversial intellectual Jiang Qing 蔣慶 (b. 1952) is taken from the opening remarks of the first of his three essays that stand at the core of A Confucian Constitutional Order ( p. 27). The book, coedited by Daniel Bell and Fan Ruiping, collects, in addition to Jiang’s essays, critical responses by four Chinese
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