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    Chinese Meritocracy versus Western Democracy: An Artificial Dichotomy.William Chan - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):38-53.
    Whether China should be more democratic has been a continuous debate among political theorists inside and outside of the country. Over the last decade or so, much scholarly discussion on the question surrounds the ideas of the political meritocrats, who hold that democratically elected officials should be constrained, if not replaced, by meritocratically selected officials, chosen by means of, for instance, examinations and peer recommendations. This institutional arrangement, most of them argue, is particularly suitable for the circumstances of China. The (...)
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    Introduction.William Chan - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):1-3.
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    Principle, Things, and Four Stances of Chinese Moral Philosophy.Yiheng Ding - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):74-80.
    In The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2023), Wang Hui unfolds two interrelated threads to help us understand China’s historical transition from the pre-modern to modernity. The first thread reveals institutional change in the socio-political realm, tracing the transition from a society based on enfeoffment (fengjian zhi) in the pre-Qin period, to an empire characterized by centralized administration (junxian zhi) during the Tang–Song eras, and eventually to the modern society that began to emerge in the late Qing period. The second (...)
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    Creating and Historicizing Chinese Modernity.B. V. E. Hyde - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):84-90.
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    Confucianism's Modern Evolution: A Response to The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought.David Elstein - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):70-74.
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    Wang Hui's Critical Historiography and the ‘Liberation of the Object’.Jacob Fordham - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):80-84.
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    ‘grass forming in the distance yet absent close at hand’: A brief review of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought.Wu Genyou - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):90-95.
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    Elena Ziliotti, Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory. [REVIEW]Michele Giavazzi - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):118-122.
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    Re-examining the Historical Evolution of Confucianism: A Response to the Discussion on The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought.Wang Hui - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):95-106.
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  10. Confucian Meritocracy and Passive Virtues.Sungmoon Kim - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):4-23.
    Confucian meritocrats argue that moral education should not aim to make people politically active because doing so is not only inconsistent with the underlying assumptions of Confucian virtue ethics, but it is likely to make people more adversary and uncivil. According to Confucian meritocrats, moral education should aim at inculcating a particular set of virtues that are directly conducive to political meritocracy such as deference, dependence and paternalistic gratitude, or what I call ‘passive virtues’. This paper argues that unless public (...)
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    Past and Present: Thomas Carlyle, Meritocracy and the ‘China Model’.Wang Songlin - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):54-69.
    Thomas Carlyle’s knowledge of ancient Chinese literature and political thought, specifically Confucianism, helped shape his political view of heroes and meritocracy. His view of ‘ good government’ might have inspired, in a reverse way, John Stuart Mill’s political philosophy of ‘representative government’, which somewhat converged with Carlyle’s idea of meritocracy by integrating bureaucracy with democracy in government. Carlyle’s advocation of meritocracy in the past finds an echo in contemporary China’s ‘vertical democratic meritocracy’ or rather ‘China Model’. An investigation of the (...)
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    Against Virtue Politics: Han Fei Zi’s Critique of Confucian Meritocracy.Bai Tongdong - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):24-37.
    During the Warring States period of Chinese history, both Confucian and Legalist (as well as Mohist) thinkers proposed meritocracy as an ideal way of governance. Despite this apparent agreement, they differed from each other on what should be counted as merits. In this paper, I will reconstruct Han Fei Zi (a so-called Legalist thinker)’s critique of Confucian virtue-based meritocracy. In this reconstruction, we can imagine a dialogue between Han Fei Zi and a Confucian, and there are actually a few rounds (...)
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    Who Misunderstood China? Political Meritocracy, Democratic ‘Dogmatism’ and a Tocquevillian Reflection.Kuangyu Zhao - 2025 - Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 4 (1):107-117.
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