I have a limited life but endless aspirations: Collected Autobiographical Writings of Liang Suming: Collected Autobiographical Writings of Liang Suming

Author: Liang Shuming
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book is a biographical text by the renowned philosopher, thinker, and master of Confucianism, Liang Shuming. The author pursued truth and studied life, experiencing the tumultuous events of 20th-century China. He left a legacy for posterity with works such as Essentials of Chinese Culture, The Human Mind and Life, and Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies. This book compiles his famous autobiographical essays, including My Autobiography of Self-Education, Who I Am, Three Attitudes Toward Life, and My Efforts and Reflections. It briefly outlines the author's academic inquiries and records his aspirations for national and ethnic unity. The book is a collection of articles about his life written by Liang Shuming during his lifetime. He described himself as a person of questions and attributed his lifelong pursuit of problems to life and social issues. In this book, under his delicate and candid pen, his struggles and perseverance in seeking solutions to the great questions of society and life are vividly portrayed. Additionally, his journey of self-education, emotional attachments, intellectual evolution, and social practices in fulfilling his duty to the nation's rise and fall are presented in meticulous detail, providing rich and comprehensive materials for understanding and studying the life experiences, academic thoughts, and personal sentiments of China's last great scholar, Liang Shuming.