Critical Dialogue on Creating Public Value: The Comparisons of Confucian Value, Socialist Core Value, Universal Value and Public Value

The Creating Public Value Theory by Mark Moore is more and more accepted all over the world. China has been a value-oriented society for all her history. However, China has been dominated by the Confucian ethics and modern political elite values, especially traditional instilled civil servants values and modern socialist core value. The public value of China has been highly cultured and localized. This paper tries to review briefly and make the critical comments on the following issues: (1) Confucian value; (2) the socialist core value; (3) the universal value; (4) the human common value; and (5) the public value. The paper highlights what differences of conceptualizing public value between China and the Western countries.