Beyond Confucian China: The Rival Discourses of Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin (Academia Sinica on East Asia) - Softcover

Wong, Young-tsu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138879061 ISBN 13: 9781138879065

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Young-tsu Wong throws new light on Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin, both through research on the sources, nature and import of their ideas and through juxtaposing them. The result is a provocative and stimulating analysis of late Qing-early Republican thought. Never before these two rival thinkers have been studied in any western language, and Wong sees these two men, though distinctly different in personality and thought, as the genuine pioneers of modern Chinese thought. The author highlights the mix of traditional Chinese thought, especially Confucianism and western ideas as well as the personal experiences of the two key thinkers in Modern Chinese History, enabling him to reassess the transition of China’s cultural tradition and its modern fate in a world-wide perspective.

This work provides a stimulating and provocative reassessment of two major thinkers in modern Chinese history. As such, it will be welcomed by scholars in the field of modern Chinese history and intellectual thought.

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About the Author

Young-tsu Wong is a Chair Professor at National Central University in Taiwan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138879061
• ISBN 13: 9781138879065
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208