习近平思想的真正根源：中国政治哲学家与现代性的长期抗争
外交事务
第103卷，第2期，第176-183页
2024年3/4月刊
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拉纳·米特摄影
拉纳·米特，S.T. Lee美亚关系教授
摘要
2023年，中国收视率第二高的电视台湖南卫视推出了一部名为《当马克思遇见孔子》的系列剧。该剧构思巧妙：扮演两位思想家的演员——身着棕褐色长袍的孔子和身着黑色西装、头戴狮形白色假发的卡尔·马克思——在岳麓书院相遇，岳麓书院是一所千年古学，以其在儒家哲学发展中的作用而闻名。在五集节目中，马克思与孔子探讨了政治的本质，最终得出结论：儒家思想与马克思主义兼容——或者说，马克思的理论可能潜意识地从儒家思想的源泉中汲取养分。在其中一集中，马克思指出，他和他的同伴“共同致力于（政治）稳定”，并补充说“实际上，我自己也长期是中国人”，这表明他的思想始终与中国传统世界观相契合。
引文
Mitter, Rana. “习近平思想的真正根源：中国政治哲学家与现代性的长期抗争。” 汪晖《现代中国思想的兴起》评论，迈克尔·吉布斯·希尔主编。《外交事务》，103.2，2024年3/4月：176-183。
外交事务
第103卷，第2期，第176-183页
2024年3/4月刊
在出版商网站上查看
HKS作者
完整作者信息请见下方引文。
拉纳·米特摄影
拉纳·米特，S.T. Lee美亚关系教授
摘要
2023年，中国收视率第二高的电视台湖南卫视推出了一部名为《当马克思遇见孔子》的系列剧。该剧构思巧妙：扮演两位思想家的演员——身着棕褐色长袍的孔子和身着黑色西装、头戴狮形白色假发的卡尔·马克思——在岳麓书院相遇，岳麓书院是一所千年古学，以其在儒家哲学发展中的作用而闻名。在五集节目中，马克思与孔子探讨了政治的本质，最终得出结论：儒家思想与马克思主义兼容——或者说，马克思的理论可能潜意识地从儒家思想的源泉中汲取养分。在其中一集中，马克思指出，他和他的同伴“共同致力于（政治）稳定”，并补充说“实际上，我自己也长期是中国人”，这表明他的思想始终与中国传统世界观相契合。
引文
Mitter, Rana. “习近平思想的真正根源：中国政治哲学家与现代性的长期抗争。” 汪晖《现代中国思想的兴起》评论，迈克尔·吉布斯·希尔主编。《外交事务》，103.2，2024年3/4月：176-183。
The Real Roots of Xi Jinping Thought: Chinese Political Philosophers’ Long Struggle With Modernity
Foreign Affairs
Vol. 103, Issue 2, Pages 176-183
March/April 2024
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Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations
Abstract
In 2023, Hunan TV, China’s second-most-watched television channel, unveiled a series called When Marx Met Confucius. The conceit was literal: actors playing the two thinkers—Confucius dressed in a tan robe and Karl Marx in a black suit and a leonine white wig—met at the Yuelu Academy, a thousand-year-old school renowned for its role in developing Confucian philosophy. Over five episodes, Marx and Confucius discussed the nature of politics, arriving at the conclusion that Confucianism and Marxism are compatible—or that Marx may have subconsciously drawn his theories from a Confucian well. In one episode, Marx noted that he and his companion “share a commitment to [political] stability,” adding that “in reality, I myself was Chinese for a long time,” suggesting that his thinking had always been harmonious with traditional Chinese worldviews.
Citation
Mitter, Rana. "The Real Roots of Xi Jinping Thought: Chinese Political Philosophers’ Long Struggle With Modernity." Review of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, by Wang Hui. ed. Michael Gibbs Hill. Foreign Affairs, 103.2, March/April 2024: 176-183.
Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review, The Spectator, The Critic, and The Guardian. He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics "Meanwhile in Beijing" is available on BBC Sounds. He is co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the UK Historical Association. He previously taught at Oxford, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
