- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author’s Preface
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- Chronology of Dynasties
-
1. Some Preliminary Observations on the Rise of Qing Confucian Intellectualism -
2. Dai Zhen and the Zhu Xi Tradition -
3. Dai Zhen’s Choice Between Philosophy and Philology -
4. Zhang Xuecheng Versus Dai Zhen -
5. Qing Confucianism -
6. The Two Worlds of Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) -
7. Sun Yat-sen’s Doctrine and Traditional Chinese Culture -
8. The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century -
9. Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment -
10. Modernization Versus Fetishism of Revolution in Twentieth-Century China -
11. The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China -
12. China’s New Wave of Nationalism -
13. Democracy, Human Rights, and Confucian Culture -
14. Changing Conceptions of National History in Twentieth-Century China -
15. Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking -
16. Modern Chronological Biography and the Conception of Historical Scholarship -
17. The Study of Chinese History -
18. Confucianism and China’s Encounter with the West in Historical Perspective -
19. Clio’s New Cultural Turn and the Rediscovery of Tradition in Asia - Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Index
The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century
The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter:
- (p.178) 8. The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century
- Source:
- Chinese History and Culture
- Author(s):
Ying-shih Yü
, Josephine Chiu-Duke, Michael S. Duke- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This essay portrays the radicalization of the Chinese mind in the 20th century as a strategic move from “interpretation” to “discovery” on the part of the Chinese intellectual elite. It shows how step by step, from the National Essence group through constitionalists, revolutionaries, May Fourth Movement to Mao Zedong, the radical ideas held by Chinese intellectuals rose and fell in quick succession according, by and large, to the inner logic of the world of thought. It sees this radicalization of the Chinese mind as growing out of the marginalization of China in the world and the marginalization of intellectuals in Chinese society.
Keywords: Radicalization, May Fourth Movement, Tradition, Revolution, social Darwinism, marginalization
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author’s Preface
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- Chronology of Dynasties
-
1. Some Preliminary Observations on the Rise of Qing Confucian Intellectualism -
2. Dai Zhen and the Zhu Xi Tradition -
3. Dai Zhen’s Choice Between Philosophy and Philology -
4. Zhang Xuecheng Versus Dai Zhen -
5. Qing Confucianism -
6. The Two Worlds of Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) -
7. Sun Yat-sen’s Doctrine and Traditional Chinese Culture -
8. The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century -
9. Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment -
10. Modernization Versus Fetishism of Revolution in Twentieth-Century China -
11. The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China -
12. China’s New Wave of Nationalism -
13. Democracy, Human Rights, and Confucian Culture -
14. Changing Conceptions of National History in Twentieth-Century China -
15. Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking -
16. Modern Chronological Biography and the Conception of Historical Scholarship -
17. The Study of Chinese History -
18. Confucianism and China’s Encounter with the West in Historical Perspective -
19. Clio’s New Cultural Turn and the Rediscovery of Tradition in Asia - Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Index
